Response to Juliet Portillo's (Development for the Caribbean on the basis of whose ideology?

Development is not what we perceive through the teachings of those in authority, as the global south which includes the Caribbean is brainwashed by accepting the American ideology of development. Ramphall (1994) concludes that Caribbean development as currently conceptualized and practiced is not the solution to Caribbean poverty, but one of its major causes. A similar view is advanced by Duncan (1995), who posits that 'Western development and practice is one that generates and increases poverty, disempowers individuals and households, marginalizes women, debilitates and progressively depreciates the environment and introduces values which corrupts and corrode the human psyche and cultural variety. S. B.