Abstract

VAZ, Vinicius R. C.  and  MORAES, Isaías A. de. Reflections on neo-developmentalism in the light of the Lula’s governments. Prob. Des [online]. 2022, vol.53, n.211, pp.153-173.  Epub Apr 24, 2023. ISSN 0301-7036.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iiec.20078951e.2022.211.69792.

Since the mid-2000s, the maintenance of the orthodox macroeconomic regime of the Lula’s governments surprised several intellectuals in the applied social sciences sector. What marks Lula’s government, especially, are two characteristics: i) the economic growth with the commodities boom or the commodities super cycle, and ii) the fight against poverty. This second phenomenon propitiated for a group of intellectuals to formulate the thesis that Brazil would be in a process of “social developmentalism”. On the other hand, a fraction of economists met to formulate a new theory, the “new developmentalism”, criticizing the process of de-industrialization, debt crisis and external dependence that occurred in Brazil. These two theoretical currents formed what some academics called “neo-developmentalism”. This article proposes to make a critical reflection and differentiation on the two currents.

Keywords : economic development; Latin America development; new developmentalism.