A New Economic Paradigm for the Global South
At the Economy Youth Forum at the Fudan Development Institute, I presented my proposed model of development: the Articulated Community Developmental State (ACDS).
The ACDS is a sovereign planning state in which organized communities are not passive beneficiaries of development but constitutive institutions of development itself. The state provides long-term strategic planning, coordination, discipline, and protection, while communities become territorial engines of production, innovation, social accountability, and developmental legitimacy.
The model is built upon five strategic articulations:
1. Vertical Articulation
Connecting the central state, regional and local authorities, and organized communities so that strategic planning flows downward while local knowledge, innovation, and accountability flow upward.
2. Horizontal Articulation
Strengthening cooperation among communities, territories, and productive ecosystems to overcome fragmentation and build integrated regional development.
3. Productive Articulation
Linking communities directly to industrialization, value creation, technological learning, and national wealth accumulation.
4. Reproductive Articulation
Ensuring that economic growth continuously reinforces education, healthcare, food security, housing, and human capital, thereby reproducing the social foundations of sustainable development.
5. Temporal Articulation
Reconciling immediate developmental needs with long-term national transformation by protecting strategic planning from short-term political and economic pressures.
The Articulated Community Developmental State (ACDS) offers an alternative development paradigm—one that combines state capacity, community participation, productive transformation, and national sovereignty into a coherent framework for sustainable development in Africa and across the Global South.
Prof. Jimmy Yab
Fudan Development Institute
https://youtu.be/5qtZgOjgS1E?si=1mZDTTrWXrApa4a5
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