Neoliberalism and the Contradictions of Centralized State Planning in Colombia

Development, Democracy, Peace, and Rural Transformations

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ID6440770
AuthorsAlberto Lioy (0000-0001-6902-6530, University of Hradec Králové), Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz (0000-0003-3766-3484, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume16
Issue2
Publication date2025-05-08
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2041-7373 • E-ISSN: 2041-7365
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/lamp.70010
OpenAlexW4410216416
LanguageEN
References cited31

This article examines the academic literature and reports on Colombia's National Development Plans over the past 50 years. It aims to identify the central debates regarding Colombia's development model, addressing a series of contradictions, path‐dependent outcomes, salient variations, and issue framing. This work is based on a comprehensive web search of internet repositories of academic journals (mainly LatIndex and Google Scholar) to retrieve materials discussing Colombia's National Development Plans. The 60 articles and reports analyzed date from 1975 until 2023 and include the most relevant materials regarding the proposed topic. As in all interpretative research processes, the main arguments of this article emerged gradually, first by reading the articles as separate pieces of data and then by trying to identify connecting dots in the most recurrent arguments and themes. This study identifies four salient and interrelated debates that emerge continuously regarding Colombia's National Development Plans—the historical prevalence of the neoliberal development model, the continuation of a democratic deficit in the conception of development, the abandonment of the rural areas in development strategies, and the relationship between the development model and armed conflict. This research shows how these debates are interwoven and have as a common denominator the historical circumstances underlying the incorporation of the neoliberal model in Colombia's National Development Plans. It creates connections between different materials and corrects existing fallacies and false beliefs concerning the planning processes and development

Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Sustainability and Innovation in Business · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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