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When I read articles that use categories like 'North' and 'Global South' I feel I am back in the days of the dependecy theory. I am a student of politics of foreign aid and a left-critique of the dependency thesis. I have been taking a close look at politics of aid flows to Sri Lanka from 1977. I can assure you that many of the ideas/knowledge base that opened up the economy in Sri Lanka and motivated donors to expand here had strong support from home grown ideas and interest groups. The ideas that began liberalisation was home grown.
Hence it is not adequate to talk of 'home' as a homogeneous unit. There are diverse ideas and knowledge bases in the 'Global South'. It is necessary to look at politics of these. Then we might be able to identify from the 'South' knowledge bases/institutions that will benefit majority of the population in the South.
Sunil Bastian