American Journal of Economics 2019, 9(6): 320-327
DOI: 10.5923/j.economics.20190906.06
Framework for Mitigating Coming Socioeconomic Crisis
Mohamed Buheji
*
, Dunya Ahmed
Founders of the International Inspiration Economy Project, Bahrain
Abstract In the last decade, the economic crisis has been in rapid rhythm spikes, with a frequency never like before. The
future foresight even found to carry more sudden and unpredictable spikes for both the economy and the socio-economy.
Such foresight of socio-economic crisis unless mitigated it would cause catastrophic deterioration to the quality of life, where
areas of education, health and stability would be negatively affected. The objective of the paper is to investigate the types of
socio-economic crisis that can be foresighted. The researchers try to approach this through qualitatively monitoring the
developments of the socio-economic models and define specific areas of how to turn ‘challenges into opportunities’. The
framework proposed in this paper target to bring-in sustained outcomes that can change how we deal with the coming
socio-economic challenges. The conclusion has clear implications on the way many communities and countries are
addressing the sustainable development goals (SGDs).
Keywords Socio-economic Crisis, Future Foresight, Socio-economic foresight, Resilience Economy, Inspiration Labs,
SDGs, Mitigating Socioeconomic Crisis
1. Introduction
Most emerging economies are trying to differentiate
their growth and development by differentiating their
socio-economic vulnerability to external and internal factors.
Thus, the world is expected to experience a transformation
from the traditional ‘hard economic interventions’ to more
‘foresighted socio-economic interventions’ that focuses
on integration of multi-disciplinary approaches towards a
specific country or community problem, or development
needs. Graham (2019).
This paper discusses the types of the coming and the
foresighted socio-economics crisis and risks, with a focus
on the contemporary ones. The literature of the impact of
socio-economic challenges on the quality of life is reviewed,
considering their linkages to sustainable development goals
(SDGs). Astrov et al. (2018).
The researchers review the possible wealth that can be
generated through managing the foresighted socio-economic
issues, or re-inventing then which would lead to raising the
targeted community socio-economic preparedness through
focusing on the ‘availability’. Then, proactive preparations
for the socio-economic crisis are proposed with suggestion to
be linked with the foresighted national plans. Buheji (2019a).
This longitudinal study is part of the International
Inspiration Economy Project (IIEP), which uses a
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methodology called Inspiration Labs (ILs) to solve the
current or the foresighted socio-economic through focusing
on models that can be generalised, Buheji (2019c). All the
ILs were conducted by the researchers directly through the
period from 2015 till 2019. The ways that socio-economic
models are built to engage the middle class in their
socio-economic challenges and make them active in
identifying coming challenges. Buheji (2019a).
The reviewed literature helps to develop the methodology
that lead to categorising the socio-economic crisis
preventions by mainly two types: prevention of crisis (called
for short PC) and mitigation of crisis (called for short MC).
Such categorisation can suggest further research about
the role of the community and their type of economic
empowerment if they are to absorb socio-economic crisis in
the future.
2. Literature Review
2.1. Types of Socio-Economics Risks
Systematic examination of socio-economic information
helps to identify potential threats, risks, emerging issues and
opportunities. For example, any negative impacts on human
welfare such as the provision of essential services of (food,
water, energy, transport, communications, etc.) would help
to improve the psychological impacts. i.e. Mitigation of
such risks would improve the confidence and the trust in
socio-economy. Astrov et al. (2018).
Through conducting risks evaluation of the
socio-economic challenge and then comparing the results
with best sustainability criteria, we can determine the
magnitude of tolerance that would improve the social values.