A metamorphic perspective for growth of landlocked developing countries

A landlocked country is generally disadvantaged in its goal of development. Higher costs of transportation for international movements are fairly higher both for imports and exports, putting international trade if tangible goods on the back foot. The article delves into these factors, analyzing the determinants of Porters home diamond model and its variants. Finally the author  depart from the concepts of the home diamond model  and propose an important role of the Government policies in enhancing competitive advantage of the landlocked nation from a perspective of a multiple diamond model to address the question “ If there are inorganic ways to achieve higher prosperity rates for Landlocked developing countries?”  The author  believes that Governments of such Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC) miss out on an opportunity to transform to create an intellectual landscape and this perspective can be used to mitigate the selective factor disadvantage of ‘landlockedness’ in such nations. To make a comparative study, the author  takes into consideration the determinants of Porter's Home's diamond model, the double diamond model of Rugman, and the multiple diamond model of Cartwright, Role of Multinational Enterprises by Dunning, and others and proposes a new paradigm understanding by synthesizing the multiple diamond model  into what is a metamorphic  perspective a nation can adopt. The author hopes this perspective shall give a platform for future research to add value.