The development of the ideas of the Cepal

The development of the ideas of the Cepal
Author: Hugo Beteta
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Los autores hacen una reflexión sobre las aportaciones de la CEPAL, su trayectoria e influencia en América Latina en el largo plazo. Advierten que la región no ha conseguido cerrar las brechas de ingreso por habitante que la separan del mundo desarrollado, pues la distancia actual es aún mayor que hace 50 años. Su recuento de las ideas de la CEPAL en sus casi siete décadas de existencia, resalta la continuidad y el cambio en el las interpretaciones y recomendaciones de la Comisión en torno a la agenda de desarrollo de la región. Revisan también las premisas en la persistente búsqueda de un desarrollo integral sustentado en consensos políticos efectivos, que reconozcan los obstáculos principales al desarrollo y las estrategias para removerlos y avanzar hacia un cambio estructural para la igualdad. Resaltan la necesidad de una visión integrada del desarrollo, con una dinámica virtuosa de crecimiento económico y aumento sostenido del empleo y la productividad, con una política macroeconómica con una política industrial y social articuladas en torno a una agenda de desarrollo sustentable de largo plazo, para la cual es necesario que el Estado asuma un rol más activo la economía en coordinación con el sector privado y el laboral en el marco de un renovado pacto social para lograr un cambio estructural para la igualdad junto con un sistema de protección social universal.

A Moment of Equality for Latin America?

A Moment of Equality for Latin America?
Author: Prof Dr Barbara Fritz
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2015-10-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1472446747

Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade. Higher growth rates and growing employment, but also innovative wage policies and social programs, have contributed to reducing poverty and narrow income disparities. Yet, despite this progress, nation-states in the region demonstrate little capacity to substantially change their patterns of deeply rooted inequalities. Focusing on the limits and challenges of redistributive policies in Latin America, this volume synthesizes and updates the discussion of inequality in the region, introducing the perspective of global and transnational interdependencies. The book explores the extent to which redistributive policies have been interlinked with the provision and quality of public goods as well as with structural changes of the productive sector. Inspired by structuralist and neostructuralist thinking of Latin American economists, such as Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, authors question the redistributive impact of the interplay of recent macroeconomic, fiscal and social policies, particularly under left and center-left administrations committed to greater equality. Bringing together experts in social, fiscal and macroeconomic policies to investigate the interdependent and global character of inequalities, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, economics, development and politics with interests in Latin America, inequality and public policy.

Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America

Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
Author: Gilles Carbonnier
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004351671

This 9th volume of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction. Highlighting propositions such as buen vivir, this thematic volume questions whether competing ideologies and discourses have translated into different outcomes, be it with regard to environmental sustainability, social progress, primary commodity dependence, or the rights of indigenous peoples. This collection of articles aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them. Contributors include: Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Alberto Acosta, Ana Elizabeth Bastida, Luis Bustos, Humberto Campodónico, Gilles Carbonnier, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara, Fernando Eguren, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Eduardo García, Javier Herrera, Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán, Robert Muggah, Gianandrea Nelli Feroci, José Antonio Ocampo, Camilo Andrés Peña Galeano, Guillermo Perry, Darío Indalecio Restrepo Botero, Sergio Tezanos Vázquez, and Frédérique Weyer.

A Moment of Equality for Latin America?

A Moment of Equality for Latin America?
Author: Barbara Fritz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317187563

Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade. Higher growth rates and growing employment, but also innovative wage policies and social programs, have contributed to reducing poverty and narrow income disparities. Yet, despite this progress, nation-states in the region demonstrate little capacity to substantially change their patterns of deeply rooted inequalities. Focusing on the limits and challenges of redistributive policies in Latin America, this volume synthesizes and updates the discussion of inequality in the region, introducing the perspective of global and transnational interdependencies. The book explores the extent to which redistributive policies have been interlinked with the provision and quality of public goods as well as with structural changes of the productive sector. Inspired by structuralist and neostructuralist thinking of Latin American economists, such as Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, authors question the redistributive impact of the interplay of recent macroeconomic, fiscal and social policies, particularly under left and center-left administrations committed to greater equality. Bringing together experts in social, fiscal and macroeconomic policies to investigate the interdependent and global character of inequalities, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, economics, development and politics with interests in Latin America, inequality and public policy.

Urban and Regional Planning and Development

Urban and Regional Planning and Development
Author: Rajiv R. Thakur
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2020-02-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030317765

This book discusses urban planning and regional development practices in the twentieth century, and ways in which they are currently being transformed. It addresses questions such as: What are the factors affecting planning dynamics at local, regional, national and global scales? With the push to adopt a market paradigm in land development and infrastructure, the relationship between resource management, sustainable development and the role of governance has been transformed. Centralized planning is giving way to privatization, not only in the traditional regions but also in newly emerging regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Further, attempts are being made to bring planning related decision-making closer to the people who are most affected by it. Presenting a collection of studies from scholars around the world and highlighting recent advances in the field, the book is a valuable reference guide for those engaged in urban transformations, whether as graduate students, researchers, practitioners or policymakers.

Getting Development Right

Getting Development Right
Author: E. Paus
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2013-09-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137333111

The celebratory tone about the emergence of the BRICs and the improved growth in Sub Saharan Africa and Latin America during the 2000s obscures the reality that, for large parts of the developing world, the development challenges are more acute than ever before. After three decades of Washington Consensus policies, deepening globalization, and China's and India's increasing competitiveness in ever more goods and services, many developing countries are now facing three critical challenges: how to engender a transformation of the production structure that creates many more productive jobs, how to make growth more inclusive, and how to stimulate a growth process compatible with environmental sustainability. This book brings together development scholars and practitioners from multiple academic disciplines and policy perspectives to analyze important facets of this triple challenge, to explore interconnections among them and suggest strategies for overcoming the challenges in the current age of globalization. Three features distinguish this book from other current works in the field. First, this book looks beyond the current global crisis and short-term growth opportunities and analyzes the challenges to development from a long-term perspective. Second, books on the barriers to development tend to concentrate on one of the three challenges, e.g. Barbier (2010) A Global Green New Deal on environmental sustainability; Cimoli, Dosi, Stiglitz (2009) Industrial Policy and Development on structural transformation; and Milanovic (2011) The Have and the Have-Nots on exclusion. This book, in contrast, brings the three challenges together to emphasize that they challenges are interlinked and that strategies and policies must begin to recognize these interconnections to address different aspects of the challenges concomitantly. Finally, the contributors to the book include some of the most renowned development thinkers of our time.

Development in Latin America

Development in Latin America
Author: Víctor Ramiro Fernández
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2018-07-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319921835

This edited volume discusses the development theory advanced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the 1940s, and its transformations through the second half of the twentieth century. In this time frame, the authors identify two approaches: structuralism (1950-1980) and neo-structuralism (1980-onwards). The contributors describe the transition in terms of economic theory and policy; the conceptualization of the State; and the consideration of space on regional and global scales. They argue that structuralism is still relevant for understanding the current problems of development if a careful and appropriate recovery and update of its main ideas and concepts is made in relation to the current context of globalization and internationalization of production and finance.

Labour Regulation and Development

Labour Regulation and Development
Author: Shelley Marshall
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2016-12-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1785364901

This book is an exploration of arguments about the economic and social effects of the regulation of labour, and whether it is likely to be helpful or harmful to development. Authored by contributors from a variety of fields, primarily legal as well as development studies, economics and regulatory studies, the book presents both empirical and theoretical analyses of the issues. With authors from several continents, this collection is unique in that it focuses on labour regulation in poor and middle-income countries rather than industrialised ones, therefore making it a significant contribution to the field.