Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

[Dr.Dudd]

Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
The Economist Intelligence Unit has indicated that 2010 will bring increased social unrest, especially in developing countries.

In an article published Monday in The Economist, the international magazine's think tank indicated several hot spots across the globe that are at high risk for serious social upheaval.

<span style="font-weight: bold">The graph accompanying the article shows Jamaica and the Caribbean region as highly combustible and ripe for disruption.</span>

It acknowledged that despite the recession, the world appears to have escaped relatively unscathed by social unrest in 2009.

However, this might just prove the lull before the storm.

Despite a tentative global recovery, for many people around the world economic and social conditions will continue to deteriorate in 2010.

An estimated 60 million people worldwide will lose their jobs.

Poverty rates will continue to rise, with 200 million people at risk of joining the ranks of those living on less than $2 US a day.

But The Economist points out that poverty alone does not spark unrest.

It instead identifies exaggerated income inequalities, poor governance, lack of social provision and ethnic tensions as the proverbial match that could ignite social turmoil in 2010

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Moody’s warns of 'social unrest’ as sovereign debt spirals</span>

Britain and other countries with fast-rising government debts must steel themselves for a year in which “social and political cohesiveness” is tested, Moody’s warned.

By Edmund Conway
Published: 7:35PM GMT 15 Dec 2009

In a sombre report on the outlook for next year, the credit rating agency raised the prospect that future tax rises and spending cuts could trigger <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">social unrest</span> in a range of countries from the developing to the developed world.

It said that in the coming years, evidence of social unrest and public tension may become just as important signs of whether a country will be able to adapt as traditional economic metrics. Signalling that a fiscal crisis remains a possibility for a leading economy, it said that 2010 would be a “tumultuous year for sovereign debt issuers”.</span>


I don't really see any mass cohesive movement that is going to lead or figure in so-called Social Unrest. There is nothing to fight over.

In fact I see the opposite and folks contemplate their personal and collective future and come to grips with what is Government, how to make even bad Governments work.

I think Social Unrest is the new buzz phrase and the ratings agencies and economic-gossip rags are just using it to create a market for their wares.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

Real social unrest have nothing to do with cohesion, or political parties. As a matter of reality, politicians and organizers usually attach themselves and use them.

But no political party ever have the power of influence to instigate them, unless they have control over the social or economic good of the people involved.

On the other hand Jamaicans are not that easy to be influenced into becoming involved in such action.

They are much more difficult than say Americans acting on the influence of the news media.

It is equally as difficult to for the untrained or outside observer to predict.
This is due to the level of psycho-social satisfaction the majority is immediately concerned with.
At that level, even politics ans social change is not important.
That's the reason why the vaunted cutting of government spending never achieve economic improvement that it promise.

They people who suggest those theories are not applied economists.
They are actually accountants attempting to use accounting principles to solve economic problems.

They are accountants that have usurped economics, because economists are so poorly trained for the most part.
And are not able to prove their theories in the majority of cases. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Moody’s warns of 'social unrest’ as sovereign debt spirals</span>

Britain and other countries with fast-rising government debts must steel themselves for a year in which “social and political cohesiveness” is tested, Moody’s warned.

By Edmund Conway
Published: 7:35PM GMT 15 Dec 2009

In a sombre report on the outlook for next year, the credit rating agency raised the prospect that future tax rises and spending cuts could trigger <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">social unrest</span> in a range of countries from the developing to the developed world.

It said that in the coming years, evidence of social unrest and public tension may become just as important signs of whether a country will be able to adapt as traditional economic metrics. Signalling that a fiscal crisis remains a possibility for a leading economy, it said that 2010 would be a “tumultuous year for sovereign debt issuers”.</span>


I don't really see any mass cohesive movement that is going to lead or figure in so-called Social Unrest. There is nothing to fight over.

In fact I see the opposite and folks contemplate their personal and collective future and come to grips with what is Government, how to make even bad Governments work.

I think Social Unrest is the new buzz phrase and the ratings agencies and economic-gossip rags are just using it to create a market for their wares.



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[Panajar]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

Wont happen ,not in Jamaica ,Jamaicans were recently recognized as the third happiest people in the world,even thought we have so much poverty and crime .The people have been brain washed so much, by the real rulers that they cannot recognized their own sufferings.If there is some form of unrest they will only destroy their own communities ,they will not dare venture to certain places,not because of any physical barriers, but because of the conditioning they have received over the centuries.Just to add ,one of the greatest conditioning tool ever invented is the Christian faith, as thought in the former slave colonies .&quot;slaves obey your masters,the meek shall inherent the earth&quot; etc WHEN YOU DIE YOU WILL GO TO PARADISE what a bunch of crap.

[RichD]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

don't underestimate the value of Gross National Happiness

[Panajar]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">don't underestimate the value of Gross National Happiness

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The saying that <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;ignorance is bliss&quot;</span> fit perfectly in this case, concerning that, Jamaicans are the third happiest people on the planet.

[RichD]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">don't underestimate the value of Gross National Happiness

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The saying that <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;ignorance is bliss&quot;</span> fit perfectly in this case, concerning that, Jamaicans are the third happiest people on the planet. </div></div>

but yuh know if yuh nuh have a path to another happiness why not be happy wid what you have?

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

That must be why my state legalize the smokingof the mart jane. They only make it illegal to sell, transport or grow it. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">don't underestimate the value of Gross National Happiness

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The saying that <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;ignorance is bliss&quot;</span> fit perfectly in this case, concerning that, Jamaicans are the third happiest people on the planet. </div></div>

but yuh know if yuh nuh have a path to another happiness why not be happy wid what you have? </div></div>

[RichD]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

yes maybe in some places that happiness has to be drug induced

[Amberal37]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

Bloody ****s. not read the other posts here yet, but...
Seems to be wishful thinking on THEIR part - It will NOT happen in Jamaica - not next year anyhow!!!

Can anyone dig out the predictions they made for 2009 for Greece, Spain, Ireland, Iceland and UK?

They must be plotting something - <span style="font-weight: bold">I SMELL A PLOT </span>- so watch out Jamaicans!!1

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
The Economist Intelligence Unit has indicated that 2010 will bring increased social unrest, especially in developing countries.

In an article published Monday in The Economist, the international magazine's think tank indicated several hot spots across the globe that are at high risk for serious social upheaval.

<span style="font-weight: bold">The graph accompanying the article shows Jamaica and the Caribbean region as highly combustible and ripe for disruption.</span>

It acknowledged that despite the recession, the world appears to have escaped relatively unscathed by social unrest in 2009.

However, this might just prove the lull before the storm.

Despite a tentative global recovery, for many people around the world economic and social conditions will continue to deteriorate in 2010.

An estimated 60 million people worldwide will lose their jobs.

Poverty rates will continue to rise, with 200 million people at risk of joining the ranks of those living on less than $2 US a day.

But The Economist points out that poverty alone does not spark unrest.

It instead identifies exaggerated income inequalities, poor governance, lack of social provision and ethnic tensions as the proverbial match that could ignite social turmoil in 2010
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[Amberal37]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

Tell me something...Do you ever see anything good to write about Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wont happen ,not in Jamaica ,Jamaicans were recently recognized as the third happiest people in the world,even thought we have so much poverty and crime .The people have been brain washed so much, by the real rulers that they cannot recognized their own sufferings.If there is some form of unrest they will only destroy their own communities ,they will not dare venture to certain places,not because of any physical barriers, but because of the conditioning they have received over the centuries.Just to add ,one of the greatest conditioning tool ever invented is the Christian faith, as thought in the former slave colonies .&quot;slaves obey your masters,the meek shall inherent the earth&quot; etc WHEN YOU DIE YOU WILL GO TO PARADISE what a bunch of crap.









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[Amberal37]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

Jamaicans are no more 'ignorant' than anywhere else I have travelled. In fact, the agression (by the crime stats) that Jamaicans express in external violence is no more damaging than that expressed through passive agression - just one is more visible.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">don't underestimate the value of Gross National Happiness

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The saying that <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;ignorance is bliss&quot;</span> fit perfectly in this case, concerning that, Jamaicans are the third happiest people on the planet. </div></div>

[Panajar]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: karigeni</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tell me something...Do you ever see anything good to write about Jamaica? </div></div> YES,Garvey ,Paul Bogle, Nanny ,Tacky,Leonard Howell.. Three finger JACK ect, get where i am going with this?

Jamaica was never created for people like me, who are of African descent.It has been a death ground for Africans and Taínos from the day Europeans set foot on the rock.Almost five decades after &quot;independence&quot; the vast majority of Jamaica's wealth is held by none black Jamaicans ,just like it was under overt colonial rule.











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[Panajar]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: karigeni</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tell me something...Do you ever see anything good to write about Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wont happen ,not in Jamaica ,Jamaicans were recently recognized as the third happiest people in the world,even thought we have so much poverty and crime .The people have been brain washed so much, by the real rulers that they cannot recognized their own sufferings.If there is some form of unrest they will only destroy their own communities ,they will not dare venture to certain places,not because of any physical barriers, but because of the conditioning they have received over the centuries.Just to add ,one of the greatest conditioning tool ever invented is the Christian faith, as thought in the former slave colonies .&quot;slaves obey your masters,the meek shall inherent the earth&quot; etc WHEN YOU DIE YOU WILL GO TO PARADISE what a bunch of crap.









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[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Social unrest coming to developing countries in 2010

The problem is not that the country was never administered for blacks.
It is that there have been an active policy that prevent them from achieving economic achievement that allows then to own any of the sectors that controls the economy.
They prevent Jamaican blacks to have and real foothold in the economy.
they can own on the periphery, but never the real power.
Yet they are in the majority by about 95% <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: karigeni</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tell me something...Do you ever see anything good to write about Jamaica? </div></div> YES,Garvey ,Paul Bogle, Nanny ,Tacky,Leonard Howell.. Three finger JACK ect, get where i am going with this?

Jamaica was never created for people like me, who are of African descent.It has been a death ground for Africans and Taínos from the day Europeans set foot on the rock.Almost five decades after &quot;independence&quot; the vast majority of Jamaica's wealth is held by none black Jamaicans ,just like it was under overt colonial rule.











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