Dear Andrew P What an interesting strategy. Has it not been done a thousand times in real life by the arrogant, the clueless, the unfortunate and the wise?
It is a good idea. One problem is the attributes you describe are sometimes absent in a community - there are simply no western style entrepreneurs. Running a business is quite difficult in most countries. Those with the desire to do so already do in some places. Nonetheless the approach would certainly get tongues wagging around my table! The Mongolians take a related approach to the training of soldiers and guard dogs (etc). Regards Crispin -----Original Message----- From: "Andrew C. Parker" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:29:52 To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves<[email protected]> Reply-To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Stoves] Cleaning Dung Richard and Crispin, First, I would like to point out that while I am interested in your tangent, I am not sure that future generations will take note, given the title. ;-) Second, many years ago at an Overseas Development Network Conference at Stanford, one of the presenters proposed that an effective method for development would be to start up a business, train workers, take the brightest and most aggressive of them and fire them, or otherwise encourage them to leave, so they will start up competing businesses, then let your own business die away quietly and take your leave. I never saw a study done. I suppose, other than the risk of bodily harm, it might be a viable strategy, but how would you sell it to a donor? Andrew Parker _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/ _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
