By Absas
Prof. DIB’s candidacy constitutes a decisive break from emotive populism and episodic governance, advancing instead a framework of Evidence-Based Governance (EBG). Within this doctrine, peace and national unity are not rhetorical ideals but hard economic variables; preconditions for productivity, investment confidence, and Salone’s long-term competitiveness.
- THE PEACE–CAPITAL NEXUS.
CORE PROPOSITION:
Prof. DIB reframes social cohesion as a foundational input to Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and national output.
EMPIRICAL FOUNDATION:
Drawing on longitudinal evidence from post-conflict economies, the DIB Doctrine demonstrates that identity-driven and hate-based politics operate as systemic market distortions; elevating transaction costs, suppressing entrepreneurship, and accelerating capital flight.
POLICY INSTRUMENT:
By institutionalizing Peace as Infrastructure, Prof. DIB targets a durable reduction in the sovereign risk premium, enabling the attraction of high-quality Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), strengthening fiscal credibility, and stabilizing the macroeconomic environment.
- INSTITUTIONAL RESILIENCE & ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE.
STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION:
Rejecting fragmented and reactive interventions, Prof. DIB advances a coherent policy architecture that synchronizes education and healthcare as complementary investments in human-capital formation. This integrated model is explicitly designed to transform demographic expansion into a sustained demographic dividend, rather than a source of unemployment, instability, or fiscal stress.
ANTI-CORRUPTION AS MARKET REFORM:
Abandoning sermon-based anti-corruption rhetoric, the DIB framework treats corruption as an inefficiency tax; a structural drain on productivity, competitiveness, and public trust. Through comprehensive digital transformation of public services, discretion is replaced with systems, opacity with automation, and political promises with verifiable outcomes.
INCLUSION AS ECONOMIC STRATEGY:
Leveraging gender-disaggregated and inclusion-focused data, the DIB platform establishes participation of marginalized groups as a quantifiable GDP multiplier. Equity is thus repositioned from moral aspiration to core growth policy.
- COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
PERFORMANCE-BASED LEADERSHIP:
The DIB Doctrine replaces rhetorical governance with Measurable Performance Indicators (MPIs), embedding accountability at every level of state action. His emphasis on domestic value chains is grounded in the imperative to reduce import dependence, enhance productivity, and structurally strengthen the Leone (SLL) through local production.
CONFLICT MITIGATION THROUGH JUSTICE REFORM:
Applying evidence-based justice and institutional reform, Prof. DIB aims to lower the long-term fiscal burden of internal security, reallocating public expenditure toward high-return social and economic investments.
THE VISION: HEAL. UNITE. BUILD.
Prof. DIB offers the APC & Salone a data-driven social contract. Governance, under this vision, is no longer an exercise in intention but a function of verifiable outcomes.
HEAL: Addressing systemic inefficiencies.
UNITE: Optimizing social capital as a productive asset.
BUILD: Ensuring development is durable, competitive, and empirically grounded.
This is governance by evidence, performance & results, and not ideology.
