Togo votes for legislative polls amid constitutional controversy

Togo will head to the polls on Monday after a delayed ballot, which had been scheduled for April 20th, 2024, over a highly contested constitutional reform that has since been approved unanimously by lawmakers in the National Assembly, particularly from the ruling union for the Republic Party. Brenda Radiddo reports.
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States (nations) all over the world, are not the real holders of power anymore, through acquisitions and mergers, small and medium size businesses have become multinationals. As a result they have eliminated competition, grown exponentially higher in power and revenue.
Multinationals as they are today have grown more and more powerful in proportion to the state (Nation) and worker, thus turning those very same workers into modern day slaves. The average worker today works long hours for a non living wage. Profits of multinationals have not only risen but, have gone to the top of the pyramid, less to the worker, and less to the state in the form of taxes. Furthermore, the lack of competition has stifled innovation and our ability to solve the many challenges we face. Multinational corporations have busted unions, denounced activists, and dis-incentivized whistleblowing. Yet multinational corporations use lobbying as a way to pursue their own selfish interests of profiteering, at the expense of the workers, consumers, and the environment. Lobbying has also helped increase corruption and made politicians more and more accountable to those same multinational corporations that lobby or pressure them, and less and less accountable to the interests and well-being of its citizens.
Furthermore the identity of the person or society used to rest with its faith through religion, later on people were grouped together into separate nations based on similar cultures, race, or ethnicity. Now under capitalism the person's identity rests with their profession, simply where they work or what they do. Last but not least multinational corporations number one goal is to increase profits rather than increased prosperity. When profits are increased exponentially, it is mostly the ones at the top of the pyramid who benefit, on the other hand when prosperity is increased a higher quality of life is felt for everyone.
Nations should make increasing regional trade a priority, because it is easier, less costly and more profitable to trade with your neighbors than a distant partner. Violence and wars should be avoided because they do more harm than good, and through peace and love and respect for one another anything is possible.
In order for the benefits of trading to be felt on Nations economies, a low cost transportation system is needed, thus making it easier to move people and goods. Secondly, there needs to be low cost clean electricity. Electricity that is produced by clean, sustainable and renewable energy in order to stop and reverse the damage of mass Industrialization to the environment.
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the standard measure of the value added through the production of goods and services in a country during a certain period of time. As such, it also measures the income earned from that production, or the total amount spent on final goods and services. Economic growth, measured popularly via GDP, is a complementary indicator to development, but not an adequate indicator when considered on its own. The challenge of modern capitalism is to balance its role as an efficient and effective mode of production with its tendency to concentrate income, wealth and, thus, power.
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, a good education, and a decent standard of living. The HDI provides a broader picture of an economy that includes social development. It also demonstrates that, while there is a correlation between economic and social development, the former does not guarantee the latter.
A subsistence economy is an economy directed to basic subsistence, the provision of food, clothing, shelter rather than to the market. Often, the subsistence economy is moneyless and relies on natural resources to provide for basic needs through hunting, gathering, and agriculture. In a subsistence economy, economic surplus is minimal and only used to trade for basic goods, and there is no industrialization. In hunting and gathering societies, resources are often, if not typically underused.
Third world countries should transform their economies away from this subsistence economy to the type of economy that is nowadays called the "money" economy. South - South cooperation and regional integration should be improved in order to make this transformative economic leap.
Third world countries should invest heavily in human capital (Education & Health) but also in research and forming highly skilled workers in technological jobs. They need to put a ban on the exportation of its raw resources through constitutional reforms, laws and legislation that clearly stipulates this. This will Incentivize the addition of value and processing of raw resources locally. In the long run this will help in growing the private sector and thus creating jobs for its people.
Africa for example, produces what it does not consume, and consumes what it does not produce. With its vast natural resources and arable land Africa must produce what it consumes domestically. Economic patriotism must be at the heart of the new African economy through more Intra-Africa trade, preference for African goods and services. Over time businesses will become more competitive and the quality of goods and services will increase.

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