When Persuasions Fail and Cassandras Reign: Policies that Should have been Adopted by Developing Countries…But Perhaps Never Will

This book is a recall of policies that should have been adopted, but had not been. Given present national perceptions in the more disadvantaged countries, and the global international influences on which they have made themselves dependent, this failure to adopt the right policies for themselves sadly threatens to continue. Such dependence, while it is structural, financial and material, indeed began from an earlier intellectual dependence, resulting in adopting wholesale, instruments and policies that were given to themselves by external fiat or, as later, under international subordinations to such sources outside of them. The book is a frontal look at our afflictions and our willing acquiescence in ‘given prescriptions’. Each chapter begins with a very brief summary of where "persuasions" towards likely policies had failed; the contents of their issues; the directions that should have been given to their resolutions, and the continuing impasse faced by the mass of the developing countries. For the sake of the future, therefore, it is a book for reading not only in the developing countries, but also in the developed countries, by their leaderships and the powerful international banking, funding and related agencies functioning alongside them.