Burgess COMMENTARY
In the first section of the paper there is reference to this idea being introduced in 2011. I would observe that it is surprisingly similar to ideas that I was associated with in the 1970s and 1980s when I was actively engaged in international business and later in development consultancy with the World Bank, the UN and others. It was pretty clear that the single focus projects that were the norm of the major ODA institutions were getting little traction while costing a lot, and that communities would benefit if every issue that was constraining progress was addressed in parallel. I wrote a book in the late 1990s titled 'Hundreds of Issues that Impact Relief and Development Performance'. It was based on the idea that 'Half the world's population is caught in poverty and are hungry and diseased. Relief and Development has failed, and there is no single silver bullet to solve the problems.' This book identified hundreds of issues that impact relief and development performance, and could have served as a foundation for thinking about ways for relief and development to be more successful. This is background to my current commitment to the idea that there needs to be a major reform of the metrics used to measure state, progress and performance of society ... ALL the aspects economic activity that impact people, place, planet and profit.
Peter Burgess

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