Proutist Economic Development People

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Proutist Economic Development Peoples Economy

• Dada Maheshvarananda

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The Right to Live!

• The first priority of all Progressive Utilisation
  is to ensure that every human being can live.
• The minimum necessities of all should be
  guaranteed in any particular age. P. R. Sarkar

The degree of justice in a society can be
evaluated by the way food is distributed amongst
all of the citizens. Frei Betto
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Food Security in Venezuela

• CEREAL CONSUMPTION in 1999
• Total domestic production
• 2.16 million tonnes
• Total imports
• 2.16 million tonnes
• The country is producing only 50 of the cereals
  it is consuming!

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The Five Minimum Necessities

• Food (including pure drinking water)
• Clothing
• Housing
• Education
• Medical care

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Supplementary Needs

• Sanitation
• Electricity
• Communication facilities
• Local transportation
• Irrigation water for farmers

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The Right to Work

• Meaningful employment with fair wages is also a
  fundamental human right.
• A just minimum wage must be set high enough so
  that people may purchase their necessities.

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Minimum Necessities to be Progressively
Determined

• Continual adjustment of the basic requirements.
• Depending upon the available resources and
  scientific standard of the locality.
• The standard will change with time and place.

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Economic Progress

• Economic progress increasing purchasing
  capacity
• Guaranteed availability of basic goods and
  services
• Stable prices
• Progressive and periodic wage increases
• Increasing collective wealth and productivity

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Peoples Economy

• This field of economics concentrates on providing
  goods and services to the people, including all
  minimum necessities and essential needs.
• Analyzes individuals in relation to the economy
  as a whole, including
• living standard
• purchasing capacity
• economic problems.
• Is concerned with matters such as production,
  distribution, storage, marketing and pricing of
  consumable goods.

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Classification of Commodities

• People's economy deals with minimum requirements
  and people's subsistence problems, so it must
  take precedence over other parts of the economy.
• Requires a federal government to classify all
  commodities (goods and services) into three basic
  categories
• - essential
• - semi-essential
• - non-essential.

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Essential Goods

• Needed to maintain an adequate standard of life
• clean water
• most foods
• most clothing
• housing materials
• textbooks and teaching media
• medicines and related equipment
• Cooperatives would produce and sell most
  essential commodities.
• Add
• sanitation
• electricity
• communications

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Essential Services

• Need to provide the basic necessities
• water and sanitation infrastructure
• schools, colleges, universities and kindergartens
• hospitals (especially emergency and basic needs)
• electricity and energy infrastructure
• communications infrastructure, etc
• local public transportation
• railway system
• regulation of airspace for national airlines

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Provision of Essential Goods

• Cooperative industries are the best means of
  organizing people in an independent manner so
  that they take collective responsibility for
  their livelihood.
• Best form of economic enterprise that has a
  balanced adjustment between collective spirit and
  individual rights.
• Involves getting things done between free human
  beings with
• equal rights
• equal human prestige (and mutual respect)
• equal locus standi (eg legal standing) so that
  everyone's welfare is considered. 

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Provision of Essential Services

• The local, state and federal government should be
  responsible for providing and/or regulating the
  basic infrastructure for these services through
  autonomous bodies set up for that purpose.
• They operate as key industries.
• Health care centres should be run as service
  cooperatives by the practitioners.
• Ongoing considereation needs to be given to
  cooperatisation of key industries.

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Semi-Essential andNon-Essential Commodities

• Semi-essential, eg
• some types of food, beverages and clothing
• household items of convenience
• books for leisure (but not textbooks)
• most electronic goods of convenience
• Non-essential
• any luxury goods
• As the economy of a region develops, the number
  of different types of commodities in all three
  categories will increase and vary.

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Provision of Semi-Essential and Non-Essential
Commodities

• These can be provided by small private
  enterprises.
• Small private enterprises would produce luxury
  goods and some semi-essential items.
• But cooperatives are the best means of
  productions and distribution.
• Prout always favours cooperatives.
• Government in the Prout framework should
  coordinate / regulate not be directly involved
  with the production and distribution of goods
  and services.
• To ensure guarantee of basic minimum necessities
  for all.

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Peoples Economy and Human Rights

• When human rights become the basis for
  structuring an economy, the result is peoples
  economy.
• Peoples economy will deal with the essential
  needs of the people in general.
• Including production, distribution, marketing,
  shopping, storage, pricing, sales, freight
  charges, standard costing all related
  activities.

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Constitutional Powers

• The necessity of people's economy is to be
  reinforced by constitutional power.
• Minimum requirements must be assured through
  guaranteed purchasing power which should be
  enshrined in the constitution as fundamental
  human rights or as cardinal human rights.
• This will give citizens of the country power to
  sue a government if their minimum requirements
  are not met.