Abstract

SUNKEL, Osvaldo. En busca del desarrollo perdido. Prob. Des [online]. 2006, vol.37, n.147, pp.13-44. ISSN 0301-7036.

The aim of development dominated economic policy in Latin America and the underdeveloped world between 1950 and 1970. The State drove industrialization, agrarian modernization and the expansion of the productive infrastructure and the social sectors. This was a State-centric cycle based on the structuralist focus, which was exhausted during the 1970s. After the debt crisis of the 1980s, it was replaced by a neo-liberal focus of the Washington Consensus, oriented towards financial stability, the market and the external opening, replacing development. This is the present market-centered cycle. However, the results have been mediocre and disappointing. Interest in development as the aim of economic policy is returning, for which a neo-structuralist focus is required and a socio-centric perspective, in which the State must respond to the citizenry and guide and regulate the market strategically.

Keywords : development; neo-liberalism; neo-structuralism; State-centric; market-centered; socio-centric.

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