The Feasibility of the Democratic Developmental State in the South

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Daniel A. Omoweh (ed)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.90

Keywords:

Democratic, Developmental State, Havana University, Latin American

Synopsis

The book examines the prospects of a democratic developmental state in Latin American, African and Asian countries, collectively referred to in this work
as the global South. Practically, the state refers to the political leadership.
Within this context, it interrogates the politics of the state and the unresolved critical issues it has engendered in the state-development discourse such as the need to re-conceptualize the developmental state, democratization, elections, inclusion, indigenous entrepreneurial and business class, political parties and cooperation among the countries of the South. It looks into the need to re-centre the sought state in the development process of the Southern countries after over two and a half decades of embracing neo-liberal policies and economic reforms that, rather than transform, sank the adjusted economies into deeper political, social and economic crises. It contends that the capacity of the state to overcome the market and democratic deficits resides with its democratic credentials. Finally, it suggests strategies that could lead to the rise of a democratic developmental state in the South.

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Daniel A. Omoweh

 is a Professor of International Relations at Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. He was formerly an Associate Research Professor at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs and resident National Consultant on Governance for the United Nations Development Programme,
Abuja.

Omano Edigheji

 is Research Director in the Policy Analysis and Capacity
Enhancement Programme and co-founder of the Centre for Africa’s Social
Progress at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). He holds a doctoral
degree in political science from the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology. Dr Edigheji’s scholarly interest is in the field of political economy of
development, especially the state and economic development in developing
countries and South Africa, and governance. He is a member of CODESRIA.
His publications include Constructing a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa:
Challenges and Potentialities (edited); and Governance in the New South Africa: The Challenges
of Globalisation (co-edited with Guy Mhone).

Silvio Baro Herrera

 is a Professor of Economics, Havana University, Cuba
with expertise in political economy, history of economic thought and international
economic relations. He earned an honours degree in Economics from Havana
University in 1969, and a doctorate in Economics from the same University in
1988. Between 1969 and 1982, Herrera taught economics at Havana University
and, from 1982 to 1994, he worked at the Department of Developing Countries
at the Research Centre for World Economy (CIEM). From 1994 to 2000, he was
at the Centre for European Studies (CES), and from 2000 to 2010, at the Centre
for Africa and Middle East Studies. Professor Herrera was the chairman of the
Development Commission of the Cuban Peace Movement (1979-2006). He has
published academic books and articles in scholarly journals notably, The New
International Economic Order (1980), Globalization and World Development (1997), coauthored
with Graciela Chailloux and Rosa López, Globalization and the Cuban-
United States Conflict (1996) co-authored with Graciela Chailloux, and Towards a
Global Government (2008). Between 1995 and 2004, he worked as an Expert in the
Group on the Right to Development of the Commission on Human Rights
(1995 and 2004).

David G. Lopez

is Amilcar Cabral Professor at the University of Havana, Cuba.
He was Senior Researcher and Vice Director of the Centro de Estudios de Africa
y Medio Oreinte (CEAMO). Professor Lopez’s academic interest spans the broad
spectrum of Cuba’s external relations and has published extensively on this subject.
Among his numerous works are Cuba and Africa, Cuba-US Relations, and Cuban
Foreign Policy Confronts a New World Order. He recently retired from the University
of Havana.

Prithvi R. Mudiam

 is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International
Relations at the University of Hyderabad, India. He attended the University of
Madras, India and proceeded to the London School of Economic and Political
Science, London, where he earned a Ph.D in international relations. Dr Mudiam
teaches international relations and international political economy and has been
fully engaged in the supervision of undergraduate and post-graduate students.
His academic interests include India and the world, globalization, regional
integration and industrialization. He has published many articles in scholarly journals
on India and the world and his book, India and Middle East, is especially notable.

Elie Ngongang

 is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of
Economics at the University of Yaoundé 11, Cameroon. He earned a Ph.D in
economics from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. Dr Ngongang has also
received specialist training in quantitative techniques at Check-Anta-Diop University,
Dakar, Senegal. He teaches econometrics, quantitative techniques and financial
mathematics among other courses. His research interests include entrepreneurship,
budgetary policies, financial mathematics, integration, poverty reduction and
democracy. He was an Associate Lecturer at the Sub-Regional Institute of Statistics
and Applied Economics, Yaoundé 11, Cameroon and had consulted for nongovernmental
organizations. Dr Ngongang was, at different times, a Fulbright
scholar at Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville and, at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Boston, USA. He has published many scholarly articles
in academic journals and chapters in books and has presented papers at national
and international conferences and seminars.

Dennis D. Trinidad

 is an Associate Professor in the Department of International
Studies, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. He holds a doctorate degree
in Law from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Dr Trinidad is the Coordinator,
Japan Studies Programme located in the Department of International Studies,
which he previously headed. He was Research Fellow of Japan Foundation and
Salzburg Fellow, Austria. His academic interests include economic integration,
ASEAN, and policy reform. He teaches international political economy,
international relations, political science, comparative politics of east and southeast
Asia and Japanese Politics and Government. He is a member of APISA. Dr
Trinidad has published scholarly articles in academic journals and as well; attended
and presented papers at national and international conferences and seminars.

Silvia G. Tagle

 is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Centro de
Estudios Sociologicos del Colegio de Mexico. Professor Tagle’s academic interests
are in the areas of politics, democracy, elections and corruption in Mexico. Her
publications include De la alquimia al fraude en las elecciones mexicanas, La fragil democracia
Mexicana: partidos politicos y eleccionnes and 1994, las elecciones en los estados.

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