Put People Not ‘Empire of Capital’ at Heart of Development

Click here to access article by Ravi Kanth Devarakonda from Inter Press Service. 

The Raul Prebitsch Lectures, which are named after the first Secretary-General of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) when it was set up in 1964, allow prominent personalities to speak to a wide audience on burning trade and development topics.

This year, President Correa took the floor on Oct. 24 with a lecture on ‘Ecuador: Development as a Political Process’, which covered efforts by his country to build a model of equitable and sustainable development.

The author reports on a number of excellent comments made by the Ecuadorian president regarding neoliberal policies, capital flight to support the US dollar, restrictions on the movement of labor, and other topics.