Electricity to fix existing problems and barriers and then to enable development

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China’s upturn in electricity generation around 2000 leads the upturn in GDP by about five years and tracks ahead of GDP. The added electricity at least contributed to creating the added wealth and helped enable and sustain it.

In developing countries wealth creates electricity and not the other way round.

Can development be accelerated with added electricity? How could development be maximized?

Electricity, factories, public health and more productive farms need to be combined for development.

Factories are jobs and production which need stable electricity and markets to sell the goods.

Developing countries could add better communications (inexpensive smartphones).
Developing countries could use electricity to improve agriculture with irrigation and wells.
Developing countries could increase the efficiency and productivity of markets.

Two of the key limiting factors to economic growth could be addressed.

1. Poor health and low levels of education
People who don’t have access to healthcare or education have lower levels of productivity. This means the labor force is not as productive as it could be. Therefore, the economy does not reach the productivity it could otherwise.

2. Lack of necessary infrastructure
Developing nations often suffer from inadequate infrastructures such as roads, schools, and hospitals. This lack of infrastructure makes transportation more expensive and slows the overall efficiency of the country.

Additional energy and machinery could be used to build and improve roads.
Mobile medicine and online education could be used to help improve health and education.
Sanitation, clean water and basic public health would need to be addressed with electricity. Refrigeration for vaccines would improve public health.

Use electricity to fix the problems that already exist like insufficient food or less productive agriculture.
Irrigation and fertilization and better farming practices are generally needed in poor countries.

Develop the foundation where a poor country can produce more of what it needs and the exports that others want.

6 thoughts on “Electricity to fix existing problems and barriers and then to enable development”

  1. Much of China’s success flows from its patient willingness to build sound foundations for national advancement–in line with Confucius’ instruction to first feed everyone without exception and then educate them without regard to social class. The feeding problems long associated with China will become a memory in 2021, their urban education already leads the world, rural education budgets double every five years and wages double every ten. Their level of education matches their level of development well: they’re exploiting energy more efficiently than most.

  2. Much of China’s success flows from its patient willingness to build sound foundations for national advancement–in line with Confucius’ instruction to first feed everyone without exception and then educate them without regard to social class. The feeding problems long associated with China will become a memory in 2021 their urban education already leads the world rural education budgets double every five years and wages double every ten. Their level of education matches their level of development well: they’re exploiting energy more efficiently than most.”

  6. Much of China’s success flows from its patient willingness to build sound foundations for national advancement–in line with Confucius’ instruction to first feed everyone without exception and then educate them without regard to social class.

    The feeding problems long associated with China will become a memory in 2021, their urban education already leads the world, rural education budgets double every five years and wages double every ten. Their level of education matches their level of development well: they’re exploiting energy more efficiently than most.

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