Since 1991, I have defined my paradigmatic approach to the economy as: “A universality of technical, commercial, financial and sociological rationalities, interdependent and dynamic, in a given geographical space.”
For 4 days in Senegal, I have been impressed by the improvement in the fluidity of road traffic and the regularity of its pendulum movements.
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My culture as an economist of regional integration, spatial planning and development of integrated industrial value chains, prevented me from resting, by creating travel needs that I had not dared to think about for years: j ‘walks there.
The need for empirical verification then pushed me to interview several road users, to learn about certain causes of this type of change which, casually, could positively affect the country’s business climate and the health of its finances. public.
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Here are a few:
1. With the compulsory clocking of administration agents, they can no longer be absent from their offices, to clutter the roads while going to take care of their informal affairs and;
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2. The immediate imposition of a fine of 6,000 FCFA on drivers who park for any reason in prohibited places;
3. This fine must be paid immediately by money transfer (Wave, Orange Money and others) directly to the public treasury accounts, under penalty of immediate confiscation of the driving license until this sum is paid;
4. Systematizing the payment of this fine directly by transfer to the public treasury accounts results in:
5. Reduction of unnecessary haggling attempts with agents who manage road traffic;
6. Reduction of the risks of corruption of these same agents, who could be tempted to collect lower amounts of fines, in a personal capacity.
True economists of development of systems and structures, who are therefore not prisoners of dogmatic macroeconomic-mechanical approaches, family-style #WorldBank #IMF #OMC #BCEAO #UEMOA #ECOWAS #UNDP #UNIDO, can better understand and explain to the news Senegalese authorities:
1. Productivity gains and cost reduction, through measures to act effectively on all chains of control of operations linked directly and/or indirectly to the fluidity of transport and consequently;
2. Offer them concrete and relevant approaches to not only reduce the loss of competitiveness gains which hamper [aussi] the prices of products and services, thus contributing to reducing the excessively high cost of life in Senegal.
And this is only a small demonstration of what rationalization and integration mean, in terms of the political economy of structural changes.
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