New Trends Confronting Old Structures or Old Threats Frustrating New Hopes? ECLAC's <i>Compacts for Equality</i>

Rival, Laura; Muradian, Roldán; Larrea, Carlos

doi:10.1111/dech.12174

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“…Both Saad-Filho and Lavinas agree that government transfers, indirect taxation, subsidies and expanded household debt fostered a transition towards a mass-consumption society and got in the way of new social policies serving as a step to greater equality in society. This paradigm remains in place nonetheless, even though, as Rival et al (2015) note in this issue, its limitations have consistently been identified by the influential regional think tank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which has forcefully encouraged governments to go beyond the cash transfer model in order to tackle the deep-seated causes of inequalities (Calvo, 2016; also Grugel and Riggirozzi, 2018). Still, whatever judgements we make of the model, the era has witnessed improvements in terms of expansion of programmes, recognition of new subjects of welfare, the introduction of rights-based policies, greater access to education and health and higher levels of employment than in the past.…”

Section: Democracy Citizenship and Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post‐Neoliberalism in Latin America

Riggirozzi¹,

Grugel²

2023

Development and Change

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This virtual issue reviews the post‐neoliberalism literature published in Development and Change between 2012 and 2018. It reflects on recent and ongoing, multiple experiences of resistance to speculative, extractive, inequitable and unsustainable development and the demands for alternatives that emerged in Latin America. The argument is developed through an analysis of the 18 most relevant articles published in this journal, that make a major contribution to three key interrelated debates, namely: the meaning and policies associated with post‐neoliberalism; challenges of citizenship and democracy; and the sustainability agenda. Collectively, the selected articles provide a detailed and much‐needed discussion about the key achievements, limitations and legacies of post‐neoliberalism.

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Section: Democracy Citizenship and Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post‐Neoliberalism in Latin America

Riggirozzi¹,

Grugel²

2023

Development and Change

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“…Chinese corporations and banks pushed and supported by the Chinese government to Go Global, have found willing recipients in Latin America. At a time when the Western economies suffered from a deep crisis, China suddenly appeared as a major alternative source of investment and credit (Rival et al, 2015).…”

Section: Contextual Factors Enabling the Birth Of An Imperativementioning

confidence: 99%

The extractive imperative in Latin America

Arsel

Hogenboom

Pellegrini

2016

The Extractive Industries and Society

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One of the main features of contemporary development politics in Latin America is the prominent role of the state. Another feature is the intensification of natural resource extraction. This extractivist drive is especially pronounced in the countries that are part of the 'turn to the left', which have at the same time played host to alternative development approaches. While Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador have become emblematic of these processes, their impact can be felt across much of the region. These changes have emerged within a particular context in which the electoral successes of the leaders in power have been underwritten by promises to eradicate what has been seen as the two cardinal sins of neoliberal policies: poverty and inequality. Eschewing aggressive redistribution, they have sought to achieve redistributive extractivism accompanied with largely expanded expenditure for social policies. An 'extractive imperative' was thus borne as natural resource extraction came to be seen simultaneously as sources of income and employment generation and financing for increased social policy expenditure. According to this imperative, extraction needs to continue and expand regardless of prevailing circumstances, with the state playing a leading role and capturing a large share of the ensuing revenues.

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“…Seduced as I have been by the language of phronetic economics, I have struggled to figure out that economic viability is not a language used by the social actors who dispute the value of infrastructural projects in the Amazon region. It has also taken me a very long time to appreciate fully the depth of the Ecuadorian political message regarding the country’s resource curse, and, more generally, Latin America’s path dependency predicament (Rival et al., 2015). It is only after having watched several times the wonderful animation on the Yasuní Intiative 4 by the young Ecuadorian architect Santiago del Hierro that I have finally understood its message about the Yasuní being a resource to think and to act differently in the world.…”

Section: Laura Rival Opposing the Motionmentioning

confidence: 99%