"This is a very powerful intuition pump. The standard way of thinking about development for most of the stakeholders is that people are stomachs. So governments, think-tanks, NGOs, etc are always worried how to feed people, what to feed them, and what jobs to give them."
This is an excellent point.
People are not mere stomachs, but creative agents capable of producing.
The task for African govt is how to create an economic structure that enables and amplifies people's creative agency
"This is a very powerful intuition pump. The standard way of thinking about development for most of the stakeholders is that people are stomachs. So governments, think-tanks, NGOs, etc are always worried how to feed people, what to feed them, and what jobs to give them."
This is an excellent point.
People are not mere stomachs, but creative agents capable of producing.
The task for African govt is how to create an economic structure that enables and amplifies people's creative agency