se for economic democracy sustainability presentation at the fssi learning session 7 august...
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If democracy were just about majority… Total PH Enterprises--777,687 Of these: >only 0.4 % = 3,023 BIG >99.60 % = 774,664 MSMEs (overwhelmingly micro, 91.6%) Source: NSO, /23/20163ganiserrano prrm fssi learning sessionTRANSCRIPT
SE for Economic Democracy & Sustainability
Presentation at the FSSI Learning Session 7 August 2014 @ Dolcelatte Cafe, Quezon City
Isagani R. SerranoPresident, PRRM<[email protected]>
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Core messages
• Markets are not the place to resolve inequality or pollution.
• SEs are an antidote to corporate monopoly that discounts the environment and labor.
• SEs need government to have a fighting chance.
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If democracy were just about majority…
• Total PH Enterprises--777,687• Of these: >only 0.4 % = 3,023 BIG >99.60 % = 774,664 MSMEs
(overwhelmingly micro, 91.6%) Source: NSO, 2010
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MSMEs in the PH
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MSME’s by industry
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A curious thought
• Why would an economy, controlled by so few and regularly shocked by global crises, still remain standing?
• Maybe, it’s being fed and ‘suckered’ by a broad base of micro, small, & medium enterprises.
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The SE Bill asks
• Government to be an ‘equalizer’ thru policy & resource support to help ‘transform’ our economy
• Placing the poor & poverty at the center: inclusion & participation
• A partnership platform: ‘PPP of sorts’
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SE as Post2015 agenda
• SDGs 2015 and beyond: zero absolute poverty, more equality/fairness in our fragile world
• Outstanding issues: Continuous economic growth with high poverty and rising inequality, violence & social conflicts, breached ecological limits
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SE as Post2015 agenda
SE = poor as entrepreneur + environmental sustainability
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SE as Post2015 agenda
• Focus on the poor • An equalizer: empowering, redistributive,
transformative • Environment –enhancing resilience of
ecosystems and our natural lifelines
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Agenda2015: A new global cooperation for eradicating poverty and transforming economies through
sustainable development
Five Transformative Shifts:1. Leave no one behind.2. Put sustainable development at the core.3. Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth.4. Build peace and effective, open and accountable
institutions for all.5. Forge a new global partnership.
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Meeting ASEAN 2015
1. Mobility of goods & services (& labor)2. Concentration of wealth & income in cities 3. Intensive extraction & poverty in the rural 4. Carbon footprint: lengthening not shortening
the trade mile 5. Malthusian scenario: survival of the fittest
traders
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Development as usual
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Development as usual
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Development as usual
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PH development dillema
• Economic growth that includes some and leaves behind so many
• Reducing poverty on one end, reproducing it on the other
• Cycle goes on and on….
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PH development dillema
• High growth, ‘trickling up’ more than ‘trickling down’. • Failing to achieve even only a
minimalist MDG agenda
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PH development dillema
• PH development is development of the city. • City is ‘prosperity’.• Rural is poverty, rural is cheap. • RD is extracting the rural for the city
(or for the city rich & middle class).
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PH development dillema
PH development is enriching the city and beggaring the countryside.
• NCR, R3, R4a---regions concentrating so much of the wealth & income of the nation
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What’s the way out?
One has to be genuinely ‘crazy’ to find a revolutionary solution to
our problem.
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SE as ‘game changer’?
• Why not?
• SE, by definition, is an equalizer, for the poor and for the environment.
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Thank you.
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