Instituto
Henry George ...
Managua, Nicaragua
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Instituto
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31st
and 32nd CE Economics Courses Graduate
What's Public is Private, and Vice-Versa, in
Nicaragua
IHG Seeks Funding for Development of
Regional Center
31st and 32nd CE Economics Courses Graduate
The Instituto Henry George's 31st and 32nd intensive "Comprender la Economía" political economy courses graduated 33 and 39 students on June 2nd and July 14th respectively. Click here for complete "Comprender La Economía" Course Statistics, 2000-2006. The IHG hopes to be able to offer at least two more courses in this election year in Nicaragua. CE graduatas continue to sign the IHG's demonstrative petition asking for a National study of the application of the Georgist solution in Nicaragua, and some students have taken the Georgist message to their membership organizations with the result that the IHG has been tentatively invited to give private workshops to national organizations such as the "Movimiento Comunal" which has thousands of members and local chapters in almost every departamento of Nicaragua, and various national student unions, but has been temporarily held back from pursuing those opportunities due to lack of funding. Such workshops would be considered "breakthroughs" to a higher level if involvment and ownership of the Georgist paradigm, especially because they were solicited by the organizations through their own initiative.
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What's Public is Private, and Vice-Versa, in Nicaragua
As Nicaragua advances in an election year, signs of progress and poverty abound in the capital. The confusion of the public and private domains, based in the unscientific tax system leaves the public domain unjustly privatized and the public domain negligently mismanaged. Shortages of water and electricity, untended public ways, negligently inadequate public investment in public transportation, private encroachment on the public domain and abuse of private space (environmental contamination, abusive noise in residential areas, etc.), are all the result of a national macro-economic policy which privatizes comunal property values and confiscates private property values. The logic of the government has deteriorated (or progressed, if you prefer) to where the private citizen owes taxes and fees at every turn, where the government encroaches more and more on the private life of the citizen, but the government is not responsible for what would be considered normal management of the public domain, nor is it liable for accidents or other mishaps caused by its own negligent or inept management of the economy and public domain. The whole system is designed to protect the private sovereignty over the country by a minority of private interests who literally own the property rights to the land, natural resources, and natural monopolies (public infrastructure) of the country (as well as commercial and political monopoly power which the concentration of land value ownership provides them). The solution to the growing chaos and desperation caused by the growing economic inequality in Nicaragua: conversion to a macro-economic policy which taxes the economic value of land, natural resouces and natural monopolies, and which eliminates the public taxation of the activities and products of labor and capital.
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IHG Seeks Funding for Development of Regional Center
The IHG is currently seeking financial assistance for the construction of a multi-use facility which will allow for the development of an international Georgist educational and leadership training center in Managua. The center will be self-sustaining by operating an international Spanish language institute as well as through rental income of its conference space. The IHG will operate the facility as a registered Nicaraguan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). Individuals who would like to to help speed this project along are encouraged to donate to the IHG via the IHG NY, or to contact the IHG Director.
IHG Director Paul Martin and volunteer assistant Karen, in the
IHG Managua office.
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