ABSTRACT
The failure of Western development tricklism to provide productive jobs or meet basic human needs in the Third World was not accidental. It stemmed from the pro-capital bias of Eurocentric theories. Prescriptions based on these theories were top-down and technocratic, i.e. ahistorical, abstract and macro, all based on the universality of Western rational behaviour. As such, the Western theories were anti-labour and inherently in conflict with the realities and resource endownments in developing countries.
