Human Rethink

1. Two years ago, the Development Space was notified of a viable solution for underdevelopment. But for 2 years, the solution has been ignored. Instead, the source of underdevelopment that the solution targets remains a taboo subject.

The source is the “elephant in the room” that every major player in the Development Space actively avoids in scholarship and in policymaking. Determine for yourself if the proposed solution should at least be tried or if it should continue to be ignored. https://bit.ly/3POCfZA

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Developing countries cannot develop no matter how hard they try because what will make development happen is similar to a foreign language with no means to learn it. There is a new way to teach the language with the resources of higher education. The question is when will it be implemented? https://t.co/zn0XBktxw2

Home The beginning of the End of underdevelopment is now here. But how fast will it happen?​ The scarcity of effective managerial leadership is what makes underdevelopment persistent. It’s a problem that formal education could not address. There is now an effective solution for that. Game changing Id...

Urgency of our Solution for Underdevelopment

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But note that Human Rethink is not about exploring solutions for underdevelopment or just presenting new ideas. Instead, we provide a ready-made turnkey solution that will end the problem of underdevelopment in any country that implements it. The solution is the Implicit Curriculum of Higher Education. To end underdevelopment, a developing country simply needs to implement the solution exactly as it is recommended in as many local universities as possible. Four years later, graduates of the Curriculum will perform as well as expatriates from developed countries and China. This will happen immediately upon graduation, not at some unknown future date (which is what conventional higher education promises)

A developing country can now make the choice: Continue the redundant increase in the population of university graduates with zero result for development, or change the curriculum so that a graduate will immediately perform managerial duties as well as expatriates from the West and China to make development happen fast.

Does modernization add up to development?
Like globalization, modernization is not incremental development. Since independence, most developing countries have expanded modernization projects, including public bureaucracy and infrastructure. None of that has increased the supply of competent indigenous managerial leadership. Hence, modernization projects will not cause a developing country to eventually catch up with developed countries.

Is Modernization the same as Development?
For developed countries the answer may be yes. But the answer is no for developing countries. Colonialism eliminated the choice of economic models for developing countries and imposed the current economic model along with its rules for political and military organization, social institutions, national borders, markets, and other systems and structures. For developing countries, modernization is the mere existence of these systems and structures. Development is when these existing systems and structures are maintained with the effectiveness of developed countries, and then propagated with steadily improving efficiency. By definition, the managerial talent needed to do that is scarce in developing countries. Effective managerial talent is supplied mostly by the expatriate diaspora of developed countries, but only insufficiently due to the high cost and not enough to facilitate development as defined here. Modernization can procure only limited and shallow growth because there are not enough expatriates to sustain, multiply, and propagate its potential. So, the opportunities that modernization presents are not fully availed. Moreover, when expatriate managerial supervision is lost for any reason, modernization structures and systems stagnate and deteriorate.

Does steadily increasing globalization add up to development?
No. Globalization is not gradual development. When the footprint of industry is expanded in a developing country by expatriate-led administrative structures, the scarcity of indigenous managerial competence remains. GDP may increase and poverty may be reduced, but the country will not someday catch up with developed countries. A large and increasing base of competent indigenous managers is required for that to happen.

Is “globalization” the solution for underdevelopment?
For developing countries, globalization is the control of industry by foreign capital interests and by expatriate managers from developed countries. For generations, capital and managerial leadership for this and other large-scale operations have been provided mainly by multinational interests from developed countries. Globalization has reduced poverty for many in developing countries and provides revenue for governments. But it has not reduced the shortage of managerial talent that defines underdevelopment. Employees of globalization interests do not leave to start competitive operations. The efficiencies of globalization operations have not been spread across the economy by indigenous managerial talent in the numbers required for development as defined here. Globalization is not development. At best, it leaves the majority in poverty and much of the rest in the “middle income trap.” Countries caught in the middle-income trap have a prosperous and affluent minority population of Western and or Asian managers, administrators, entrepreneurs, and their indigenous cohorts in the professions. But the bulk of the indigenous majority is far less prosperous and stuck in economic stagnation.

How can missing managerial talent be acquired?
Currently, effective managerial talent is provided in two ways:

1) By expatriates from developed countries that may or may not be temporary, transient workers and
2) By the diaspora of expatriate countries who have made their home in developing countries.

Both methods have not provided enough managerial leadership to facilitate development as defined here.

The enduring way to provide managerial leadership is to systematically train indigenous populations in large numbers to be effective managers. Higher education claims to do that but evidence to support this claim is lacking. Most developing countries have been educating their people in local and overseas universities for decades and now have large populations of graduates living in their midst. Yet, underdevelopment remains persistent. Lesson learned: More of the same type of higher education will continue to fail.

What is Underdevelopment?
Persistent underdevelopment is a permanent shortage of effective managerial and entrepreneurial talent in a country. The abundant supply of effective managerial talent is the essential precondition for the type of growth that will develop a country to the level of developed countries. Without it, developing countries are trapped in underdevelopment no matter what else they might try or do to escape. Underdevelopment is persistent because effective managerial leadership is in short supply.

What is Development?

Development is the rise of a nation to meet the West and other developed countries as an economic equal based on the managerial and entrepreneurial leadership of its own indigenous people, as China is doing.

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Why is underdevelopment not being addressed?

Why is underdevelopment not being addressed?

Our goal is to eliminate the implicit knowledge gap in higher education.

Human Rethink has developed the path to lasting economic development.

Exporting raw materials and resources will not combat underdevelopment.

International aid will not combat underdevelopment.

Regime change will not change underdevelopment.

Human Rethink directly addresses the causes and solutions of underdevelopment.

Consider this:

Progress is not being made in third world countries. No area of knowledge is as stagnant as the issue of development.

Ever ask yourself “why haven’t we created effective solutions for underdevelopment?”