More on the Tricontinental Institute’s call for a New Development Theory that does not keep the poor in poverty

By Dr Clive Thomas On In Guyana and the Wider World |

INTRODUCTION

Today’s column continues consideration of the circular communication sent to me by the Tricontinental Institute of Social Research, a network of research bodies in the Global South which, urges my contribution towards the construction of  “a new development theory that did not leave the poor trapped in their poverty”.

In last week’s presentation I referred to the theory known as the “non-capitalist path of development”, NCD, which was the original and leading development paradigm of the Tricontinental Institute.  I shall expand on the NCD in what follows.