Geopolitics
The Knowledge Economy Trap: How the West is Redefining Development to Maintain Its Grip
The narrow path to development for the Global South now runs through globally integrated, knowledge-intensive services like ICT and professional services, as the traditional manufacturing-led model has been closed off by automation and intense global competition. This represents yet another shifting of the goalposts by the Western-dominated economic order, forcing developing nations to compete in a brutally unequal digital arena where the rules are stacked against them from the outset.
