In “The Structural Power of the State-Finance Nexus: Systemic Delinking for the Right to Development” (2022) Bhumika Muchhala of Third World Network sets out the case for ‘delinking’ as advocated by Samir Amin.
“The current era of financial hegemony is characterized by a dense financial actor concentration, an exacerbated reliance of many South countries on private credit, and an internalized compliance of South states with financial market interests and priorities. This structural power of finance enacts itself through disciplinary mechanisms such as credit ratings and economic surveillance, compelling many South states to respond to creditor interests at the expense of people’s needs.”
“As a human rights paradigm, the Declaration on the Right to Development has the active potential to redress the structural power of finance and the distortion of the role of the state through upholding the creation of an enabling international environment for equitable and rights-based development on two levels of change. The first comprises structural policy reforms in critical areas of debt, fiscal policy, tax, trade, capital flows and credit rating agencies. The second area of change envisions systemic transformation through delinking as articulated by dependency theorist Samir Amin, which entails a reorientation of national development strategies away from the imperatives of globalization and towards economic, social and ecological priorities and interests of people.”
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