Constructing economic citizenship
The challenge of a new model of development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22333348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fernanda Wanderley (0000-0002-8378-3850), Robert Finestone Berkson |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | se |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | T'inkazos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1990-7451 • E-ISSN: 1990-7451 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s1990-74512005000100002 |
| OpenAlex | W1973671161 |
| SCIELO_PID | S1990-74512005000100002 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
From the analysis of the bases of economic growth in Bolivia in the last fifty years, the author identifies real challenges centered upon the design of creative policies from and for concrete national socio-economic realities and the urgency of micro-economic, industrial policies directed at developing a competitive and diversified economy. The political, economic and social crisis which threatens Bolivia has deeper roots than the neoliberal policies implemented in the last twenty years. Once more, as throughout Bolivian economic history, the actual debate has been centered on the old division: more State or more market? 3 One supposes, mistakenly, that the supremacy of one of these mechanisms of assignation and distribution of wealth is sufficient to generate sustained growth. This work proposes to change the focus and analyze the bases of economic growth in Bolivia in the last fifty years. From this perspective, what one observes is a strong continuity in the management of public policy, that places its bets on the exploration of natural resources as the principal path to development, generating a public and private rent-seeking culture and overlooks other activities such as, for example, the development of an industrial sector. One feels this lasting influence today when the attention given to the ownership and management of natural gas restricts the argument over the role of the State in the economy and the advantages and disadvantages of the integration of the country to external markets. The use of surpluses generated from natural resources which could be the basis for creating a more diversified economic structure, is pushed to the second level of the argument. The deep problems which underlie the actual crisis – insufficient economic growth, low productivity and competitiveness, social inequality and poverty – are not explicable by a model of administration, whether more liberal or from the State but also by an over- concentration of development under an economic, social and political logic based on mineral or hydrocarbon extraction. The precise political moment has opened up a great opportunity to analyze the path of economic development that Bolivia has traveled thus far. It is clear that neither the state nor liberal model, concentrated on the exploitation of natural resources, has generated sustained growth, much less a significant improvement in the lives of the majority of Bolivians (Gray, 2003)
Citizenship · Economic system · Economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Policy · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Mathematics · Political Economy and Marxism
Non-Contractual Relations in Business
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Structural Holes
Collective efficiency
Development as Freedom
Learning, Adjustment and Economic Development
Small Firms, the Informal Sector, and the Devil's Deal
The Architecture of Markets
Historical Alternatives to Mass Production
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |