Why We Are Poor? An Architectonic Assessment

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to answer the question ‘why we are poor?’ Kant’s architectonic approach has been employed in order to describe the systematic unity of our object of inquiry. The dictionary meaning of the word ‘why’ requires us to know the reason or purpose of something to happen and that might have produced certain coherent and incoherent outcomes. Similarly, the dictionary meaning of the word ‘poor’ implies a state of having very little money with which to buy one’s basic needs. It is a state of economic incapacity. The posed question would probably seek some answers as to the reason(s) for our economic incapacity in Tanzania. The schema, which is used to describe the requirements of the question in terms of both its contents and arrangement of parts, is the Tanzania’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). The PRSP is considered as an organism that is envied by every person including all its stakeholders. The PRSP is, therefore, essential to answering the posed question. In addition to that four key issues are considered in the architectonic approach: Thus PRSP: 1) as a whole, an organism (articulatio) in which the poor can be transformed; 2) it is not an aggregate (coacervatio) in which the whole is discrete; 3) it grows from within (per intussusceptionem), and 4) it does not increase by external conditions (per appositionem).