Economics, Politics: Error in Development Projects

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By Nneka Okumazie

Error is a dominant canopy of development projects in several countries. It is guaranteed that whatever they really need and whatever they actually do, diverges to a larger degree.

The problem is not lack of finance – local or external, but the absence of their ability to learn from errors and rid of them.

In many developing countries, what problems do people complain about? Those problems, whatever the sector they fall in, have poverty of options, in what and how with ways against all possible errors.

Errors have dominated some societies that directions that people follow are errors, even though they are the acceptable ones. These errors drive individuals against meaning, into what can be displayed.

The development of any country is in the hands of everyone in that country, with varying responsibilities. The market woman who can’t read may have a lesser role to play than an administrative staff in some office. The boss in a department has a higher role to play – in how to minimize errors or make some effort to take things forward.

There are things that people get to shield themselves from the discomfort of society, or some just leave, but what it really means to escape is the ability to know the ways to solve those problems, or those in one’s work, that could advance true development.

There are stories many are convinced about, which they tell themselves, as reasons for their choices, but are stories of errors which they have chosen to believe or as an act for a personal interest.

There is nothing in a society of error where there is not enough resilience to fight back. Errors grow and expand, becoming entrenched.

It is an error that becomes so powerful that elections become for the wrong people or government, institutions and others have no difference existing or not.

[2 Chronicles 15:19, And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.]

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