The Structural Power of the State-Finance Nexus: Systemic Delinking for the Right to Development

Bhumika Muchhala ()
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Development, 2022, vol. 65, issue 2, 124-135

Abstract: Abstract 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 to 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 peoples’ 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. First, structural policy reforms in critical areas of debt, fiscal policy, tax, trade, capital flows and credit rating agencies. Second, 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 to that of economic, social, and ecological priorities and interests of people.

Keywords: Austerity; Debt colonialism; Dependency theory; Delinking; Discipline; Epistemology; Financialization; Neoliberalism; Role of the state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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