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State interventionism and development policies in Latin America

This work analyzes the dynamics of the Latin-American countries in the last decade, which distinctive characteristic is the weakness of the neoclassical hegemony and a retaking of state intervention trajectories in the economy. The analysis is centered in the constituent vectors of a neo-developmentist calendar and in the role that the State should carry out in the retaking of growth and of sustainable development. In focus are the roles that the political regime and government institutions accomplish in the economical process, with the suggestion that there would be no possibility of growth and development without a strong State. Different trajectories constitute the base from which a similar group of interventions operate delimiting a field for the attraction of new governments, which instruments and action margins will depend on a group of institutional characteristics and of context that rule governability and, in last analysis, the nature of the economical policies.

development; Latin America; political institutions; State; market


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