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A Market-based Resolution to Global Social Causes

    Prasad Rao, PhD Director AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors Pvt Ltd altkuznetsadvisors.com       The various Multi-lateral Institutions – IMF, GEF, IPCCC, WB, WHO, ILO, IMO, etc, that espouse long, prudential global causes linked to Human Society and its co-existence with Nature & Narnia, administer them thru various Governments, Affiliates and NGOs. They also lean on entities in the financial markets who design and administer Cause-specific analytical, rating and financial instruments. MLIs lean on such constructs as SDG Indicators, and cumulated/current Indicators of physical phenomena that reveal the extent of diffuse pollution, climate, or other social malaises and externalities, to guide remedial and administrative policies that achieve an eventual goal largely beyond the cognizance or planning horizon of Individuals, Commerce, Businesses, even one-term Political Governments. Consequently, such causes, when prudential or global in scope, are taken up by MLIs

The AltKuznetsHouseHierarchy@Precinct.DSM ?

  The AltKuznetsHouseHierarchy@Precinct.DSM ?   Prasad Rao, PhD, Director director@altkuznetsadvisors.com AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors Pvt Ltd https://altkuznetsadvisors.com/; https://altkuztransact.com/         The Precinct society is built around the consolidation of consumer-oriented, low-cost and efficient technologies in to the Precinct DY economy that Religion and the Mint find sub-serving their galactic & Sovereign goals, that employed Householders find appropriate to their family aspirations, and which are strategic to the objectives of Democratic Politics and Technology Markets. In most Religions, families constitute the basic societal unit. House Property is deemed the basic unit of Family Asset, and an inseparable element of Householder achievements. Hence, the Housing-centered society, and Housing-economy are of cognizance as much to Religion and Sociology, as they are to Policy and Markets. Houses are important for other reasons. Houses are the nu

The AltKuznets Social Nirvana ?

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The AltKuznets Status Highway to Social Nirvana?  Prasad Rao, PhD, Director altkuznetstransact.com     Democracies around the world have grappled with sustainably managing the Society.   Whereas the Real Permanent society plans its PQ across generations and LQ Status into the Next, Democracies, sponsored by Technology Interests and implemented by the Political Coterie, have a much shorter horizon, and a clearly-defined context to operate within. Notably, (Private Pol.Coterie-administered) Democracy, by axing Public Religion out, claims the right to monetize the Status of its members as Mint Gold & Sovereign Currency. It is this (partial) monetization of inter-life PQ Status that fund the Infrastructural conveniences offered Precinct residents. It has, however, been a challenge to define and quantify Individual Status and leverage the same in Democracy beyond an Identity Card. Much as the UIDAI-issued Aadhar Identity is a significant step forward in quantifying PQ Status tow

ALTKUZ, DON'T BLEED THE RICH !

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ALTKUZ, DON’T BLEED THE RICH ! ‘0% Tax, 100% Societal Gain’ Prasad Rao, PhD PennState Director, AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors In a per-capita-driven Nominal economy, Environmental Externalities are released in Production, Consumption and in post-consumption Disposal. However, and despite a formal Tax-based governance at the federal, state and Precinct tiers, successive Governments have preferred to focus on Social equity issues to the particular neglect of Environmental externalities. Further, the regulatory onus was directed almost exclusively at Production externalities across decades. Such wanton inattention to Consumer- and Consumption externalities resulted in exacerbation of air, water and land, as well as social externalities, in urban conglomerates where Households reside, grow their family, and consume toward raising their Lifestyle Quality. These externalities cumulate slowly and/or remotely, due which there is limited public cognizance, much less political, until cost-e

Real Prerogatives, Nominal Democracy, and ….. Social Sustainability?

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  Real Prerogatives, Nominal Democracy, and ….. Social Sustainability?     Prasad Rao, MTech, PhD Director, AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors   *********************Email  director@altkuznetsadvisors.com  for a pdf   *********** It’s a wonderful world they say… perhaps a fantastic Universe too. But the Universe is all of 9 Dimensions, so how do we reconcile the Nominal Democracy that operates in the 3G3D space around us? This apparently, is an esoteric issue that bears no relevance to the Sustainability theme that AltKuznets is staked in… or is it? Most all of us are aware Sustainability is dichotomized in to the Environmental and the Social. And Social Sustainability is all about Democracy and Egalitarian Rights. How then do we reconcile the 9D Galactic with Religion-Real, and the Real-Religion with the Nominal Democracy that operates in the 3G3D? And how could we ensure Citizens of the Nominal Democracy turn in their Real Status-sourced Prerogatives to get the wheel of Democracy mov

Green the Urban Concrete Jungle? A Sustainable Construction Proposal

Prasad Rao, MTech PhD PennState Director, AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors   Click here for the Biz Sales Office   Construction – both Residential and Commercial, is a primary economic sector worldwide that, beyond adding to the Nation’s GDP, contributes to societal growth, adds value to Businesses, and generates employment. Despite those credentials, the Construction Sector bears the burden of contributing to significant environmental externalities across the spectrum of its inputs, construction-associated pollution, and demolition waste. Construction figures prominently in Climate-change debate and policy priorities for reasons its share in the economic pie, and the externality-intensiveness of income-incremented upgrades to Property assets. In response, Governments worldwide have adopted the ‘Green Building Code’ [1] to incentivize Property Builders and Developers to increment environmental sustainability of their operations. While such Code is legislated and incentivized with