Basic Goods

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Clean Water ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Basic Goods ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Subsistence Rights

This chapter describes the basic goods approach to global policy priorities. It reviews the treatment of human need in political philosophy, economics, and social policy and defines basic goods as those goods and services that meet objective human needs. The chapter identifies a set of basic goods that includes nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, housing, electricity, and human security services. It gives a sense of the magnitudes of deprivations for each of these basic goods. The chapter goes on to link the basic goods approach to minimalist ethics and subsistence rights, to assess the role of basic goods provision in growth processes, and to assess general approaches to basic goods provision.

What Matters

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Basic Goods ◽  
Development Perspective ◽  
Critical Link

This introductory chapter introduces the basic goods approach and its relationship to the standard growth perspective and the capabilities/human development perspective. It defines basic goods and services as those that meet central and objective human needs and argues in favor of sustained attempts that achieve their universal provision. It identifies a set of basic goods that includes nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, housing, electricity, and human security services. The chapter argues that what really matters about growth is the possibility that it will lead to an increase in the broad-based provision of basic goods and services. The hoped-for expansion of human capabilities and development is predicated on this expanded provision of basic goods, and the expanded provision of basic goods and services also can promote growth. In these ways, basic goods and services are a critical link between growth and human development.

From Sustainable Development Goals to Basic Development Goals

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Human Wellbeing ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Subsistence Rights

AbstractThe Sustainable Development Goals have attracted both defenders and critics. Composed of seventeen goals and 169 targets, the overly broad scope of the SDGs raises the question of whether there are priorities that need to be set within them. This essay considers the SDGs from the perspective of a “basic goods approach” to development policy, which takes a needs-based and basic-subsistence-rights view on policy priorities. It focuses on a subset of SDGs that directly address the provision of nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, and human security services. In doing so, it proposes a set of seven “basic development goals” and ten associated targets. It argues that this more focused approach can better protect basic rights, more effectively contribute to progress on human wellbeing, and make accountability more likely.

No Small Hope

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Basic Goods ◽  
Basic Rights ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Subsistence Rights

This concluding chapter reviews the basic goods approach, its intellectual sources, and its practical importance. It emphasizes the role of basic goods as basic rights and connects these basic subsistence rights to the tradition of moral minimalism in political philosophy. It questions the claims of technological optimists and calls for a “rational pessimism” in the setting of global policy priorities. It also proposes a set of ten basic development goals to replace the current and often criticized sustainable development goals. It considers the feasibility of basic goods provision using back-of-the-envelope calculations, concluding that the goal of universal basic goods provision is indeed feasible.

No Small Hope

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Minimal Set ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Basic Goods ◽  
The Many ◽  
Development Perspective ◽  
Critical Link

This book argues in favor of an approach to global policy priorities that emphasizes the attempt to put a minimal set of basic goods and services into the hands of everyone. This universal provision of basic goods and services includes nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, housing, electricity, and human security services. The book argues that this policy focus is appropriate both for practical and ethical reasons, but that success in this provision will not be easy and therefore is no small hope. Basic goods and services meet central and objective human needs. The basic goods approach tries to form a bridge between the standard growth perspective on development and the capabilities/human development perspective. What really matters about growth is the possibility that growth will lead to an increase in the broad-based provision of basic goods and services, an outcome that is not always guaranteed. The hoped-for expansion of human capabilities and development is predicated on this expanded provision of basic goods, and the expanded provision of basic goods and services also can promote growth. In these ways, basic goods and services are critical link between growth and human development. The book explores each of the identified basic goods and services, the basic rights to them, and the many challenges to be overcome in their expanded provision.

Housing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Housing Deprivation

This chapter considers housing as a basic good that satisfies critical basic human needs for shelter. Housing satisfies not only the human need for shelter but also as a place in which the provision of other basic goods can occur. The chapter also considers the widespread but unknown extent of housing deprivation and the consequent negative impacts for well-being, including health. It examines the subsistence right to housing and the role of this right within the United Nations system of human rights. It also examines the issue of refugees and displaced people, urban slums, approaches to housing provision, and regulatory frameworks.

Education Services

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Relative Role ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
United Nations System

This chapter considers education services as a basic good that satisfy critical basic human needs, which allow individuals to effectively participate in society. It considers the widespread nature of education services deprivation and the consequent negative impacts for well-being and growth. The chapter examines the subsistence right to education services and the role of this right within the United Nations system of human rights. It also examines the special role of girls’ education, education quality, and accountability; and the potential role for schools to serve as basic goods provision centers. It concludes with a consideration of demand-side issues and education provisioning processes, including the relative role of public and private provision.

scholarly journals KEBUTUHAN MANUSIA DALAM PANDANGAN EKONOMI KAPITALIS DAN EKONOMI ISLAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Rahmat Gunawijaya
Keyword(s):  
Human Personality ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Spiritual Satisfaction

In Islam, consumption cannot be separated from the role of faith. Faith is an important benchmark because it gives viewpoints that tend to affect the human personality and behaviour. It strongly influences the quantity and quality of consumption in the form of material or spiritual satisfaction, which then shapes the behaviour of market consumption trend. It is certainly in contrast to the principle of the fulfillment of human needs according to a more capitalist economy on the orientation of the material to maximize the production of goods and services to meet human needs. The cornerstone of the philosophy of the capitalist is secularism, separating spiritual and material (or religion and the world) by dikotomis.

scholarly journals Somali refugees’ wellbeing: the role of socio-culturally mediated agency

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Moses Senkosi Balyejjusa
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Somali Refugees ◽  
Medium Scale ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Human Wellbeing ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Business Enterprises

Although there is substantial research on refugees and their wellbeing, there is limited research that examines the role of refugees‘ agency in their lives. Using Doyal and Gough‘s (1991) theory of human need, the study analyses Somali refugees‘ wellbeing by examining the satisfaction of their human needs. Drawing on data from 70 Somali refugees in Kisenyi, Kampala, the study found that Somali refugees exercised their socio-culturally mediated agency to promote their wellbeing. The socioculturally mediated agency was demonstrated in form of an individual‘s/family‘s ability to start and maintain small and medium-scale business enterprises, and develop social networks with the host community, fellow Somalis within Uganda and abroad. Individuals/families that engaged in either or both of the agency actions were able to adequately meet their human needs, thus romoting their wellbeing because adequate satisfaction of human needs leads to human wellbeing.

scholarly journals Development of Existing and Alternative Formats of Retail Chains in the Context of the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Schepina
Keyword(s):  
Home Delivery ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Retail Chains ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Retail Format

In the current conditions of development of trade relations, one branch of the economy is particularly distinguished from other types of activity, and this is retail chains. We have high expectations for this area to meet basic human needs during the pandemic. The buildup caused by COVID-19 has put retail chains and supply chains on the brink of survival. Nevertheless, at the moment, we can make straightforward conclusion that the Russian food retail has effectively and promptly dealt with the current situation in order to meet the consumer needs. It quickly moved online and established its technological processes to do home delivery. The analysis showed that the volume of orders made online increased in March 2021 fivefold compared to March 2020. In this study, the author employed the methods of statistical and factor analysis. The article revealed the role of network retail in providing the public with the necessary goods and services during the pandemia. The study examined the ways of improving trade policy of retailers who are forced to develop alternative formats of trade under new economic conditions, in particular, online trade. The article provided the classification of retail chains operating in the FMCG retail format (consumer goods).

scholarly journals Analisa Efektivitas Dan Efisiensi Pompa Bravo Tipe WP20CX Untuk Pembersihan Kolam Renang di Kolam Rahayu Park

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Mochammad Alim Huda ◽  
Mulyadi Mulyadi
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Motor Power ◽  
Pump Operation ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
The Cost

Technological development is very rapid, the demand for the needs of both goods and services is demanded to be faster. Pumps are one of the tools that are often used in industry to help meet human needs, where this tool is used to ease the burden of humans who cannot be demanded to continue working. But in determining the pump there are many things that need to be considered in its use. Analysis of the WP20CX BRAVO pump used in the process of assisting the provision of clean water in the Rahayu Park pond is one of the stages in which the performance of the pump is known in terms of the effectiveness and efficiency of the pump against pool cleaning. This determination was reviewed through several different discharge variables when taking 5 samples at each suction of 100%, 80%, 60% and 40% with the aim that the pump works optimally. From the discharge, the pump size is produced with a discharge of 300 liters / minute, pump diameter 2 "and with a pump motor power of 2 kW and the cost required in the recommended pump operation is Rp. 10,000, - every 6 hours of pump operation.

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