Learning from the Future of Kuwait: Scenarios as a Learning Tool to Build Consensus for Actions Needed to Realize Vision 2035
Sustainability
; 15(9):7054, 2023.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2317891
ABSTRACT
This perspective is a qualitative meta-analysis study using a critical interpretive synthesis that narrates three future and equally plausible scenarios of social and economic development in the State of Kuwait over the next 15 years. The first scenario follows what we call the ‘Sustainable Growth' model as defined by the United Nations Development Goals and the Kuwait Vision 2035 presented by the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. As a polar opposite, the next scenario is what we call the ‘Mismanaged Resourced-Based Autocracy' model, a negative reflection of the worst-case scenario. The third scenario is in between these two, and we call it the ‘Equality of Outcome Between Societal Groups' model. So as not to lay blame for past actions or point fingers, which could prove counterproductive to a consensus-building process for needed actions, we chose to use the pasts of other countries for future projections for the State of Kuwait. Our search through recent socio-economic pasts revealed that Singapore was the best fit for the first scenario, Venezuela for the second, and Lebanon for the third. All these countries became fully independent at approximately the same time as the State of Kuwait and share many other similarities. The three future projections were used as input variables to the outcome, which was a bottom-up and top-down consensus-making process regarding utilitarian action for Kuwait to be used by Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), Think-Tanks, Development Agencies, the government and the parliament.
Environmental Studies; scenario planning; stakeholder analysis; public choice; consensus building tool; Privatization; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Politics; Economic conditions; Economic models; Vision; Economic reform; Strategic planning; Subsidies; Catastrophes; Nation building; Qualitative analysis; Nongovernmental organizations--NGOs; Learning; Infrastructure; Sustainable development; Gross National Product--GNP; Private sector; Economic development; Decision making; Small & medium sized enterprises-SME; Gross Domestic Product--GDP; Unemployment; Political power; Singapore; Kuwait; Australia
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Sustainability
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2023
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