The cycles of ebbs and flows under capitalism result in the behaviour of capitalists alternating between riskless and adventurers when it comes to investments. As the ongoing capitalist recession continues and even gets accentuated, as finance begins to flow back increasingly to the metropolis as is already happening, investment and growth rate in the third world will dry up to an even greater extent than in the metropolis.

* This article was originally published in News Click on November 18, 2018.