OPINION Puntland To Focused on 3rd World Occupations

[DR OSMAN]

I was watching this 'bocame' research on how to develop an agriculture industry for towns outside the main road.


I also watched Bosaso focusing on livestock trade also


I know our largest population live outside the main road in villages or nomadic and their occupation is still third world agriculture/livestock but it suprises me why we continue to follow in a 3rd world development pattern, if we want to become first or second world, we need a program on how to quickly urbanize as first/second world economies rely on their urbanites not their rural folks for their economy.

This means we need to develop urban economies and that requires our population is given quality education around urban sectors. Technical sector is one that I really think is a boom industry. What's stopping our government to ban imports and have our local business people concentrate on making own furniture, bedding, windows, chairs, office equipment. Why don't we calculate and measaure our importation needs and see what can be done inside locally. I doubt they can create technology-cars-tvs-etc and I am open to having those sectors depend on imports, but what's stopping them from opening up big factories that supply the nation with furniture, bedding, windows, metals, chairs, office and home equipments?

I don't see nothing stopping puntland from dominating Somali technical sector as long as we set up certified academies to create a pool of local expertises. This will create supply chain in transportation jobs, management jobs, accounting jobs, IT jobs, by simply creating a technical sector.

 

[Lord]

Om sure the people incharge are not stupid, but my question is why are they not doing anything. My guess is no one wants to deal with a long term projekt just someone els kan claim the Victory.

 

[DR OSMAN]

Om sure the people incharge are not stupid, but my question is why are they not doing anything. My guess is no one wants to deal with a long term projekt just someone els kan claim the Victory.

Well I am not suggesting we shift quickly from rural to urban and create an urban poor like happens in hargeisa and burco, that was silly how they relocated too quickly from rural occupations and settled into burco and hargeisa. We need a planned rural to urban relocation or else they will just join the unemployment line by shifting to cities when there is no jobs.

This requires 50-100 year project of rural to urban transformation project where we shift rural folks into urban areas in 'phases' so we don't create the urban slum effect and this requires the govt and investors to develop technical institutes so they can do their own plumbing, electricity, create factories around high end products so our GDP increases, the only way to increase GDP is to identify high expensive products and produce it locally not low cost products like 'water or soda production'.

If we develop a technical institute to focus on 'construction' by products like furniture, gates, roofing, bedding, windows, bricks, these are quite expensive GDP products per item, this we can do locally and there is no excuse for it.

We can expand and target markets in Somalia and regionally thru 'advertisements' which is non-existent in africa and get a head start to brand our products regionally as superior.

 

[repo]

We should focus on resources we have and what industries they can fuel. To fight deforestation and support cheap fuel, we should exploit coal. Window glass can be created from sand and limestone. Iron can be turned into steel sheets. Fish should be turned into supplements as well as consumer products. There needs to be a coordination going on which is spearheaded by the business community, I don't think the government is enough. Their business should be not getting in the way.

 

[DR OSMAN]

We should focus on resources we have and what industries they can fuel. To fight deforestation and support cheap fuel, we should exploit coal. Window glass can be created from sand and limestone. Iron can be turned into steel sheets. Fish should be turned into supplements as well as consumer products. There needs to be a coordination going on which is spearheaded by the business community, I don't think the government is enough. Their business should be not getting in the way.

Yes we in puntland and somalia in general do not exploit our resources fully, we don't create by-products from raw resources, we sell it raw like our livestock and we don't turn it into other by products, the same with fishery, the same with agriculture. But my thread is about how do we create an urbanite economy which will be around technical skills rather then hiring indians?

our urban population is 50-60% unemployed, this is heading towards urban poor scenario if some govt intervention isn't done to bring that number down to a maximum of 10% unemployed.

Our rural people are employed as farmers, fishermen, and livestock herders, we create dams for them so their drought resistant, we provide them immunisation programs, I see the govt is focused on a third world path-way which focus on rural economy programs which is all I see in puntland also. I don't think we need to be third world, we have a good primary/secondary education standard, it's what we do now with that base and create technical path-ways and academies is what I was promoting.

I mean we can create a port at garacad, I am certain diaspora can come together with the puntland government and identify how we bring funds together to start companies and factories that create by-products from our raw resources and also create technical companies.

For each technical company created it comes with employment created for accountants, it staff, hr staff by default and professional sector. If we want to hire these kids into professional jobs, we need a technical economy. Plus we must be careful where we direct our locals, let's not waste our time in unskilled factories creating low cost items, this won't increase our GDP. So we need a law that limits hotel investment thru strong tariffs to gear puntites towards the government urban economic transformation. I've yet to see a research conducted how to shift puntland into second world economy which means a reduction of 50% of your GDP relying on rural activities.

 

[DR OSMAN]

@sincity an economy is about increasing the supply chain and having the actors involved be as local as possible so it can generate employment, after employment, we need banks to operate so those employees begin buying properties which creates another round of supply chain. The supply chain in puntland is completely abroad be it people, diaspora, foreign workers, materials and resources, this is a bad economic indicator as the employment isn't being generated in your own market and therefore your not really changing your GDP indicators.

Even ask @Farjano-Walad I know high level economics that you need the market stay as local as possible through-out the production and supply chains being generated so maximum employment is happening on your side.

Right now our urban economy is totally absent beyond 'small time traders', our banking arm is non-existent, u ideally want thousands of people buying or building homes so it can generate work for your local factories since the parts and materials should be located locally, transportation develop work, locals get jobs, locals then buy homes and generate further work for factories. Right now we are relying on diaspora to build homes and our diaspora is to small to warrant factories to set up, hence it's critical we ensure locals are the largest purchasing power in Puntland and not diaspora. But our economy is looking like it relies on small segment of diaspora, when they do a feasibility study, they will realize it's not worth setting up factories since the customer base is to small, so it's critical locals are the purchasing power in the market place.

 

[DR OSMAN]

We should focus on resources we have and what industries they can fuel. To fight deforestation and support cheap fuel, we should exploit coal. Window glass can be created from sand and limestone. Iron can be turned into steel sheets. Fish should be turned into supplements as well as consumer products. There needs to be a coordination going on which is spearheaded by the business community, I don't think the government is enough. Their business should be not getting in the way.

I was at my local shopping center and noticed today some store just about 'cake' design, it was solely dealing with the design of cakes like candles and other thing. I pondered wallahi these gaalo will turn even cakes into different industries looooooooooool, i love how they can transform simple food into so many restaurants, designs, even they have fast food vs restaurant food and restaurant food has different star ratings, hotels do, motels, they simple are great at turning raw material into 1000 varieties and creating heaps of jobs. We definitely need their assistance in this area on how many different streams of varieties can we turn our somalia and we begin tackling each one and reaching 5-10-30 year goals of becoming a real economy. That's why their human capital is amazing in comparison to our human capital, human capital is the most important asset, look at this way, wud u prefer a burger from the west or somalia? i wud take the west cause the human capital is higher and the burger will be of higher quality. Now multiply that across their whole economy is like this, higher human capital leads to superior products, it's quite simple as that.

Puntland should be fighting for higher human development index scores, it leads to inventors, it leads to better workers, it leads product superiority. I like how @Abdalla keeps a close eye on the yearly HDI and reports back on the spot. It's important it means do u want a jahil fixin your car, building your house, serving your food, his product will always be inferior because his brain is inferior is the correlation. Keep it up @Abdalla and help us figure out ways to fix the human capital in puntland so we lead the way in Somalia. I say let's start at least with our hospitality industry.