The bottom-up economic narrative from the tangatanga wing of the Jubilee Party seems to have stirred a hornet’s nest in the land of our political tribal kings. One, is the bottom-up approach the right prescription to our present economic predicaments? Two, have the proponents and opponents of the approach correctly defined the bottom-up approach? Surprisingly, there is limited academic literature on the bottom-up economic approach to development. Anthony Flaccavento of bottomupeconomy.org, a big advocate of the bottom-up economic approach, views it as a transition from consumption dependency to production resilience at the local community levels.

Source: Standard Digital July 30, 2021 20:49 UTC