November 20, 2018
The International Council for Small Business (ICSB) held The Global Entrepreneurship Conference on October 4th and 5th, 2018 at Salerno University in Italy. Dr. Basilio Monteiro, Associate Professor in the Mass Communication Division, and three graduate students; Hope DeVito, Monica Mhatre, and Helena D. Peterson, presented their paper: Insidious Paradox of Sustainable Development: Case Studies of Goa (India) and Luozi (Congo)/Hallsberg (Sweden). They received the Best Paper Award for their paper at this Conference. Below is a summary of their paper:
"What does an evolved person need to sustain a vita impleatur (a fulfilled life)?
We transitioned from homo agriculturae to admirable complexity, not only to desire, but to need more than food for sustainable sustenance. Cultura, along with agricultura is a sine qua non to live vita impleatur.
In general, human beings, despite material poverty, have an evolved awareness and understanding of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, and it is self-actualization they all aspire. Within this framework the presentation of Insidious Paradox of Sustainable Development: Case Studies of Ireland, Goa (India), and Luozi (Village in Congo) and Hallsberg (a village in Sweden), was explored and examined the sustainable development public policies of Ireland (national public policy) Goa, India (State level public policy) and political economy of trust as foundational component of sustainable development (Luozi, village in Congo, and Hallsberg, village in Sweden). The authors, Hope DeVito, Monica Mhatre and Helene Diyabanza Peterson, respectively, examined also the political economy of sustainable development and critiqued the prevailing national public policy (Ireland), State level public policy (Goa, India) and argued that they are not conducive to a meaningful sustainable development. The political economy of digital trust, local and institutional trust notwithstanding, is a source of enormous anxiety and uncertainty to promote sustainable development suitable to vita impleatur."
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