How to build a new developmental model for the southto- south cooperation and the Ecuadorian case

Abstract

With the development of the BRICS, South-South relationships may create a multipolar world, but they do not change the collective mode of development. In fact, this group of countries have an internal mode of development which is capitalist and their relationships with their periferies is very similar to existing Noth-South ones. Ecuador, one of the few Southern countries having adopted postneoliberal measures, has not been able to transform its mode of accumulation and is not post-capitalist. Various factors may
explain this situation: the strenght of the sistem and in particular of monopolistic capital (trasnational enterprises); modernizing conceptions of the political leaders (developmentalism), popular support. However, it seems possible to apply a new paradigme of human development on the planet (Common Good of Humanity), concretized in a new appraoch of the fundaments of any society on earth: respectful relationships with nature, production of the material base of life based on use values, organization of social and political collective life with democratic processes and multi and inter-culturality.