Oluyomi Ola-David Insights

Whenever an electorate bestows political #power, they grant the empowered permission to protect them. Whenever the #poor save for the rich, they grant moguls wealth to support their economies. Whenever a reader studies a line, they take permission to navigate the author's mind. Whenever the blind chooses a guide, they endow the #trustees with their ends. Whenever a human baby greets the #planet, it grants its guardians permission to parent it. Whenever #parents fail to prioritise wholesome #education, they create a legacy of chaos in #human societies. Many times the people who care the most about us and our future remain uncelebrated on the sidelines of history. So today my spotlight is on those heroic but silent: ♡ social protectors ♡ faithful trustees ♡ luminary guides ♡ thoughtful readers ♡ repentant listeners ♡ the industriously wealthy ♡ careful guardians ♡ true and living legacies I salute your courage!

Often times when development experts propose solutions to the problems of underdevelopment and poverty, the solutions are tilted towards addressing the effects of underdevelopment such as high unemployment, hunger, low literacy rate, prevalence of communicable diseases, and other low quality of life parameters. There are fewer empirical investigations into the causes of underdevelopment and poverty across developing countries. For instance, there is a need to intricately decipher the role that traditions, cultural values, norms, beliefs, and religious inclinations play in development. This is because non-economic factors could be either great contributors to or deterrents of development. Within the Weberian framework of economic development, religious affiliations to  Protestantism  and Protestant ethics were observed to be stimulants of the entrepreneurial spirit. In turn, the entrepreneurial spirit significantly contributed to industrial development. Notably, most r