Making Research more Visible

Today, most of the research work/outputs are gathering dust in libraries.The government and policy makers don't have concern about the research outcome of the universities. We need to rethink about the effective usefulness of research outcome. If we talk more and debate and manage to have one intergovernmental policy debates about the research outcome once in a year with the researchers, policy makers and those who will implement it. We can have a open discussion about the usefulness of the research in policy arena to be implemented in various sectors.

The 2008 Research Strategy of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) states that the ‘critical issue for the future is how to improve researchers’ effectiveness in producing outputs that directly and indirectly change
both policy and practice, are truly relevant to poor people’s needs, and
are effectively taken up.

Now, most of the works are gathering the dust in libraries as archives and researchers are using that as the achievement or getting new papers published. Can we ask ourselves, do we have some more responsibilities than just publishing. I think UGC should also step in thin issue. Common people don't know...What is Monetary Policy is and Fiscal Policy is...that's why they believe in herd race and Government don't need more intelligent animals than hurd racer otherwise they can't make fools to the people for more than 60years.

Lets ask the government to open one section of the media as research media,where researcher will tell the people openly about their research. Some of the Key Findings of PANOS LONDON ILLUMINATING VOICE report are as follows-

Drawing on available research and evidence from the field, this briefing
finds that the political and institutional context, including the degree
of representativeness of government and the vibrancy of civil society, is important to understanding the capacity of the media to generate public debate around research and evidence, and to influence policy outcomes. The following factors strengthen the capacity of the media to do so:
$$ the capacity of journalists to use research to create stories that
capture the public’s interest and are related to existing and emerging policy-making agendas
$$ the capacity of researchers to produce policy-relevant research and
to work with intermediaries to present such research in a way that the media can use
$$ the capacity of civil society activists to pick up policy-related research
and drive public debate around it
$$ the strength of the relationships among these actors – journalists,civil society activists and researchers – and their associated
organisations, and the degree of openness and trust among them.

Wild Thoughts

One of the early economists Alfred Marshall stated that-rising industrial productivity could create higher standard of living. “I say that this industrial productivity itself will destroy the quality of life, that we are living in”. That is in today’s context, It could create the lower standard of life and increase in the cases of divorce and finally unhappiness and then the chaos in the country against system. In fact, the probability of having lower standard of life increase, when we over exploit the pre-existing natural resources. This becomes more particular, when these resources propel the wellbeing of manufacturing companies together with the countries in terms of credit rating. However, the over dependency in the market forces and so called rational agent (Lehman Brothers) in the market, who might create the repackaging of credit as they have done in the recent financial crisis, then the problems become serious.
The credit rating might be inflationary credit rating and because of political cycles of credit rating by the dominant so called industrial countries. As it is evidently true, when Deven Sharma had to step down from the prestigious post of Standard & Poor, because of downgrading the US credit rating from “AAA” to “AA+”. However, triumph of Evil Politics can keep on working till the morons kept sleeping.
Though, dragon is the only challenging obstacle for US on the Earth, but the monsters of unemployment and debt crisis are coming in the form of recession very soon. In fact, US is very much into the recession says one of the most reliable recession predictor (prognostication) of recent times (last 15 years) Economic Cycle Research Institute (ICRI). The tumultuous Federal Reserve and the government broke the debt ceiling and also stepped in towards expenditure cut so that they can mitigate mounting interest on debt “almost like ponzy game” situation. Now, people have started giving the slogan- “There is Error in the system of Capitalism-install new system”. Today, the most important question is what will be the new system…………
I think we need to relook the system with new age philanthropy minus business. We really need to educate and train the lower middle class for better world without re-packing the third grade credit into further three top credits. We need to respect the resources to be used in a balanced way wherever it exist in the world, and together face the challenge posed by nature. Otherwise, once these depressions will be supported by the natural calamities then neither fiscal nor monetary is going to work……thanks to China that has reduced the speed of its Bullet train and also reduces the speed of some its project being done. Be stick to 8% growth rate, which is I say the upper bound for sustainable growth for India.