Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Economic
Revitalizing the nations calls for economic participation in economic processes by everyone in the nations. This ensures that everyone has access to economic resources – jobs for those who seek to be employed by government and corporations as well as small businesses; mediated access to economic resources for those who want to be self-employed. It also includes raising the consciousness of people from begging and borrowing to feed to actual participation in economic processes.
No nation sustains on welfare to the poor and the poor also
do not rise above poverty on welfare. They have to participate in economic
processes. Ruth for instance gleaned from the farmlands of Boaz not because she
preferred to glean. It was because Ruth and Naomi arrived in Bethlehem at
harvest time and because they did not plant before then, Ruth took advantage of
the welfare program of gleaning in the farmlands of other people rather than
beg. Please read Ruth Chapters 1 to 4 for great insight.
Gleaning is not exactly welfare. It is giving the people who
did not plant during planting seasons either because they were not in town
during planting season or had no farmlands to plant on an opportunity to put
food on their table. That way, they would not have to beg or be a burden to
other people or the state.
Resource mobilization and management is
strategic to revitalizing the nations economically especially where there are
targeted development plans to bring in abundance. The nations would have to
mobilize the right resources required for their national and personal
development. Optimal resource management which includes judicious allocation of
resources to the right places for development across board should also be
factored into the resource mobilization process. This will ensure effective and
efficient resource management. There is no point mobilizing resources if they
would not be efficiently managed.
Infrastructure development is also
required to manage the envisaged abundance profitably. For instance what Joseph
did in Egypt before the abundant harvests of the seven years of plenty came is a case
in point. He put down relevant structures to accommodate the surplus harvest. The
relevant questions the officials of the nations should be asking - What
structures are in place so that the envisaged abundance does not go to waste?
