Full Scale Failures in International Development
Since 1962, the question of development in Africa has been perceived by agronomist René Dumont like a missed occasion. But little by little, this lucid diagnosis has been abusively spread throughout diplomatic salons and official boundaries of international development, from Washington to Paris, to London and to Ottawa. Becoming the object of all complacencies, the critic of international development as a "missed opportunity" has been itself the object of a missed occasion. But if one follows the historical path, we observe that both political and economical post-colonial sequels have shaped the context in which the Africans were durably deprived from their right to grab destiny at hand. This is how the extroverted economical structure and the weight of an insolvent dept have deeply projected the African country towards dependence and tutelage of industrialised world, particularly through the World Bank's neo-liberal programs, and whatever other form they take (structural adjustment as well as fight against poverty). In this vein, the selectivity criteria in the public aid to development, brought forward by the international institution and notably adopted by Canada, opens the door to many o kinds of abuse as commanded by political realism.