DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO
Profesora Marlyn Vargas
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Master en Estudios internacionales
Université Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle
Master en Economía y Gestión
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS. SESIÓN 4.
ESTRUCTURALISTAS, ESTRUCTURAS Y DESARROLLO
ECONÓMICO
Economics after World War II: Hirschman 1981
Structuralist approach 1940s-1960s : Bardhan 1988
Rise of the neoclassical approach: 1970s
Versions structuralist approach reemerged: More recently
*Early Structuralist Approaches
Not comprise a homogeneous group
European and US universities: Latin America, CEPAL
Rosenstein-Rodan (1943), Singer (1950)
Lewis (1954), Myrdal (1957), Hirschman (1958)
Specific rigidities, lags: structure of developing economies
América Latina y el Caribe: participación en las exportaciones anuales de los 10 productos
Principales, 2021.
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Argentinian: Raul Prebisch Brazilian: Celso Furtado
False sense of universality of general (neoclassical)
New approaches study the growth process in Latin American
Peripheral structures, Economic surplus: structure & dynamics of power
High-income, industrialized, center vs mainly primary-producing,
periphery
*Later Structuralist Approaches
1) Neoclassical: market forces, individual incentives
Corrupting effect of state intervention
2) Marxian: class struggle, economic and political spheres
State: interests of domestic and international capitalists
3) Institutionalist: legal, political, and socio-cultural institutions
Asymmetric power relations
Vicious and virtuous circles:
L: low C: critical
*Structuralist Approaches to Development Theory
Organizing principle: how analysis proceeds
System: whole, structural relationships between parts, change
Structuralism: linguistics, social anthropology, psychology
Structure: global economy, holistic perspective
Economics: social, political, and historical factors
Without: commitment objectives & beliefs individuals
Approach used other disciplines: rational choice approach
Furtado: role structural configurations & rigidities
Patterns growth & distribution: peripheral regions
Historical perspective: structures, role periphery, global economy
Prebisch: center & periphery, different structural characteristics
Bases de Datos y Publicaciones Estadísticas
Cepalstat: Educación, Vivienda, Salud
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Banco mundial: Desarrollo rural, ciencia y tecnología
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Dane: Pobreza y condiciones de vida, salud, enfoque diferencial
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Observatorio municipal: Tierras, conflicto, educación
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Observatorio municipal: Tierras, conflicto, educación
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