Division of labour vital for economic development

the parts make the body work efficiently.
The same goes for any economic development. There are many facets that cannot, in isolation, make the economy achieve any growth unless all these various sectors work together.
But it is only people who understand the division of labour that can drive the economy.
The trade unions cannot claim that they are the main drivers of the economy although the part they play is without doubt essential.
Even those workers who do not belong to trade unions contribute immensely to the development of a sound economy.
In the division of labour, the central driving force is that, at the end of the day, all people must achieve a good standard of living.
There shall be no harmony in society if a few were to enrich themselves at the expense of the majority. Such division of labour would bring chaos to the country.
After the Second World War, the German society decided that they are done with starting wars after witnessing the trauma of deprivation.
Millions died and the infrastructure had to be rebuilt from scratch. The situation was the same in Japan.
They turned their minds to technological development to run efficient economies based on the export sector and not domestic consumption.
Only if a country achieves a surplus in its balance of payments can it become a developed country with a sustainable economic development.
But the people should unite for the same purpose of improving the standard of living for its people.
In both Germany and Japan, the division of labour was paramount and has been maintained ever since.
All people share the economic benefits through free education and health especially at primary school and primary health levels.
The workers are married to their jobs, so to speak, and their families come second.
A few companies were selected to spearhead the economic exports through technological support by the Government.
Those companies were geared to export electronic goods, including cars and other consumables.
In the division of labour, science and technological development became the backbone of the economy.
Universities and technical colleges produced graduates, who remained in the country unlike Africa, which does not export finished goods, but primary products and raw graduates to other countries.
In a developing economy, the division of labour must be a carefully thought out policy, where agriculture and industry play a major role.
Without better farming methods, which must be spearheaded by graduates from various universities and colleges, there will never be any industry to talk about.
In Zimbabwe, we read in daily newspapers about nurses and other graduates that cannot find jobs.
It is not that there are no jobs, the fact of the matter is that there are not sufficient graduates who have gone into farming and industry to create an economy that can fund the deployment of nurses where they are needed most – in the rural areas.
Vietnam sends its graduates for attachment in rural areas.
Civil servants cannot be paid a living wage due to the fact that there is no revenue coming from farming and industry.
The Minister of Finance, in this year’s Budget, revealed that most of the revenue was coming from the selling of airtime and VAT.
What about other economic activities? Very little is coming in the form of revenue.
Instead of the country getting revenue from exports, it is actually losing money by exporting its manpower and the little money generated from buying and selling to other countries through imports of consumable goods, like cars, electronic goods and manufactured products.
In our division of labour, agriculturists are barely contributing to the economy, engineers have no means to contribute to the economy.
The service sectors, such as the army, police, teachers, lawyers, nurses, etc, can only thrive if those in the productive sectors are given the means to create wealth.
The trade unions and their militant wings have gone into politics not to reinvent the wheel but to join other politicians in maintaining the state of economic paralysis.
Nothing has been achieved except the blame game bereft of ideas to develop the economy.
A sizeable number of Zimbabweans are looking beyond the country’s borders for survival despite all the resources the country is endowed with.
In going back to the Middle East, Arabs looked for an oasis to feed their camels without realising that black gold – oil – was lying under the sand dunes.
Today it is the richest region in the world due to the technological development of other countries that needed the black gold for their machines.
We have our own wealth in the soil waiting to be developed if we have the technological knowhow.
If the use of the cellphone was a race to economic development, Africa could have won hands down.
It is not too late to devote most of our time to solving our economic backwardness rather than concentrating on politics day and night.
Let us spend more time on arguing about ideas for economic development and how each part can contribute to the standard of living of all our people.