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Far better to serve in heaven than to reign in hell : the logic of incorporation in the European communities by a very small developing country : Malta, a case study
In spite of the rhetoric of viability and endogenously led growth
and development, small states are generally resigned to a status
of dependency, surviving as rentier economies and remi ttance
societies. Most appear determined today that their best (and
only?) bet is for even better integration within the world
economic order. They may have decolonised but they have no
intention to disengage. To do so effectively, they often seek to
establish a life-line to richer countries.
Nevertheless, lip service to self-directed development, and a
sound policy of economic management to that effect, is an
important exercise: It generates and guarantees the establishment
and preservation of sufficiently intimate relations with
prosperous and benevolent sponsors.
This paper explores the changing fortunes of Malta's experience
in development planning (1959-1988) from this perspective. It
appraises the economic success story of the resource poor island
state, independent from Britain since 1964, while chasing the
elusive phantom of viability and self-reliance. The latter has
persisted stubbornly on the distant horizon; but the public
relations exercise in this chase has been profitable in securing
transfers and investments from abroad, perhaps turning topsy
turvy the notion of unequal exchange from periphery to core.
Membership into the European Communities (EC) may yet consolidate
Malta's position as a "pampered periphery" ...peer-reviewe
Installation of Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz as the sixth President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island
abstract: Order of proceedings for the installation ceremony and a biographical sketch of Dr. Abd-El-Aziz
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