Martinican development schemes fail because they are founded on subjection and personal profit.

Evidence

Those fantastic projects set up every two years or so to save the country crossed rny mind: every one of thern determined by notions of subjection and inevitably destroyed, swallowed up by personal profit. l wondered whether, in little countries such as ours (” believe in the future of little countries”), economic prospects (their inspiration) ought not to be more like the beach at Le Diamant: cyclical, changeable, rnutating, running through an economy of disorder whose detail would be meticulously calculated but whose comprehensive view would change rapidly depending on different circumstances. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 643