Masha'Allah, you got a good head on your shoulders. The ones in the bars will be left behind, the future belongs to those who feel responsibility calling even from a young age. Don't worry about a think tank at your age, you can always join one once you graduate from college. Otherwise you'll be confused and frustrated, unless you have a solid understanding of business and politics and how that can be used to rebuild a nation.
In 10-15 years, we'll have a perfect meritocratic system and everyone will be able to run for office if they're the best ones, I'A.
Taxes are good, but not the best place to start. This is because you need a large economy to sustain the government completely off of taxes. Encouraging private enterprise amongst Somalis and large scale foreign investments are the only way forward in the short term, because the government is broker than broke right now, so they need to outsource certain sectors to the private sector due to low capital. The government should own some basic industries and corporations, but that can only happen if they get a large injection of foreign investments, whereby they'll have enough dollars from taxes + fees to start a national company that is fiscally sustainable, but will employ many Somalis. This is what Singapore has done. Their model is to run the entire country as gigantic private corporation. Each head of a governmental department is and in fact runs it as a CEO. They've combined the efficiency of private corporations and combined it with the policies of a social government. Perfect system for Somalia to adopt. But for the net 2 years, encouraging investments should be their only priority + regaining control of the monetary supply from the greedy al-kebab funding telecoms.
In 10-15 years, we'll have a perfect meritocratic system and everyone will be able to run for office if they're the best ones, I'A.
Taxes are good, but not the best place to start. This is because you need a large economy to sustain the government completely off of taxes. Encouraging private enterprise amongst Somalis and large scale foreign investments are the only way forward in the short term, because the government is broker than broke right now, so they need to outsource certain sectors to the private sector due to low capital. The government should own some basic industries and corporations, but that can only happen if they get a large injection of foreign investments, whereby they'll have enough dollars from taxes + fees to start a national company that is fiscally sustainable, but will employ many Somalis. This is what Singapore has done. Their model is to run the entire country as gigantic private corporation. Each head of a governmental department is and in fact runs it as a CEO. They've combined the efficiency of private corporations and combined it with the policies of a social government. Perfect system for Somalia to adopt. But for the net 2 years, encouraging investments should be their only priority + regaining control of the monetary supply from the greedy al-kebab funding telecoms.