Around us things seem going on randomly, tracing the arbitrariness curve, it appears so, however, in the bigger picture everything will be maintained, following certain laws of existence. While implementing this law upon existential entities some species or some form evolves as a dominating power in the ecosystem. And also this is maintained within the species. This phenomenon can also be seen within humans.

If we follow the letters that are incorporated in history books, we see that before the First world the world was despotic, autocratic, and dominant by great powers. Great powers used to use their's hard powers over weaker ones and sometimes they used to take over their's land. This seeing or making a colony was one of the reasons for the world war.

Every leader at that time was aware of the consequences and was worried about the loosening of grips that were used to handle the third world nations. Their cunning mind gave an idea to continue dominance through economic integration. With this motto, the World Bank, IMF and GATT were established.

For the first time, in the history of the mankind, a new agenda was introduced as " DEVELOPMENT"

Reality behind Development

In the last election, I asked one of the leaders what do you understand about the development?

He replied," well managed and constructed infrastructure".

This is how we are made to understand the meaning of development. In reality, development has mainly two aspects of means i.e political and economical dimensions leading ultimately to the prosperity of the nation which brings happiness to the citizens. The political dimension seeks participatory principles that every citizen must participate in the decision-making process and the economic dimension is stability with progressive growth in indicators. Constructing infrastructure is not a development it is only a prerequisite for development.

As the poor countries lack capital, skill manpower and modern technology for the improvements, those institutions which were formed for ease of economic issues come with loans on one hand and on the other hand strings that must be fulfilled. When we turn the page, those strings will be containing commitments to the norms and values of liberalism.

Poor-country with less production, incompetency, and vulnerability in every aspect has to open borders for an open economy. Who will be benefitted from such a milieu? Already established one will.

Due to these strings, Sri Lanka wanted to keep a distance from global institutions and was focused on bilateral loans, because it want to strengthen the agricultural sectors organically.

The situation escalated with the west and Sri Lanka failed to analyse the dominant power of the west, ending with the decision of bankruptcy.

In the name of development, the west wants us to be their's puppet.

The development which was to bring a brighter future to citizens went to reverse gear and was forced to fall into the debt trap of westerners.

Why development was trapped?

It was, I will clear through an example:

Before we used to build a house with timbers, woods, logs, etc which were available nearby forest. But when the wind of development reached at at door, it question the durability of our houses? It introduced concrete. Now, the west entered here they brought machines and started to exploit our resources. We could have planted two trees instead of one tree, now when we switch to limestone we can't do anything about its susceptibility.

And also we were made to import iron and steel for the frame of the house. After completion of the house, now for a beautiful outlook, we need to import chemicals in the name of colours.

Look at the picture, before we don't need to import anything, now we need new technology like vibrators, mixtures, miners etc for building houses which are manufactured by westerners.

Isn't it a trap?

In addition to this, those cemented houses which were thought to be stronger than our traditional houses are the sources of many illnesses. And for the cure again we need to rely on the west, their's products.

We see simply, a wooden house replaced by modern buildings but in-depth it was the trap.

Market

When we talk about the economy, we can't ignore the market structure. If we turn round our markets what do we find, almost 95% of our goods and services are filled with foreign products.

Why it is so?

With the wave of globalization, foreign products made their way to our local markets. But our economic situation was not to the level of buying foreign goods. So, to transcend our standard they opened their border in the name of foreign employment as one of the aspects of globalization.

Now, what happened? We ended our citizens to their company and earn from them as a remittance. And in our markets, we buy their goods and services.

In reality, this was just creating a market for themselves in our regions.

It was again a play of the west.

The third world countries are vulnerable in every sector and need assistance and support from the government, thus, we bring social securities programmes, and subsidiary plans and these are opposed by the West. They seek personal development rather than providing directly.

It is the faith of the third world country to exist in this dominant background. We can't move on by being aloof from the world, if we do they gonna come for us. If we don't do so, the trap is waiting for us.

Thank you.......

Disclaimer: This article is purely based on friction and is my opinion. It may or may not be true, more research needs to do done?