Developing countries urged to pool resources together

A South African academic and activist, Dot Keet has urged countries of the South to work more at developing co-operation among themselves than depending on the rich countries of the North.
This, she said, would end capitalist domination and also open up much greater room for maneuver for governments as against the global system and regimes. "If consciously conceived and skillfully utilized, this could even contribute towards altering the global balance of economic and political power against governmental and corporate forces in the core capitalist countries of the North."
Dr Keet was speaking at an activists training school organized by the Third World Network in Accra, recently.
She said the growing cooperation among Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are illustrative of the different modes of South-South relations that are possible.
"Such actual and potential economic relations could reduce the dependence of the countries of the South on the donor governments' cooperation of the rich North," she said.

…

Continued