Abstract

VIDAL, Gregorio. Latin America Today: Social Heterogeneity, Dominant Elites, and Developing Countrie Development. In memoriam: Celso Furtado, 1920-2004. Economía UNAM [online]. 2005, vol.2, n.5, pp.130-141. ISSN 1665-952X.

Prevalence of social inequality, high-income concentration, unsatisfied population needs, including the possibilities to be productive, that is to say, higher social diversity and developing countries development, leads to conclude that development continues to be a problem. In economic thinking history, Celso Furtado formulated the theory of development concept, as well as the thesis that underdevelopment is not a stage towards development. His ideas are regaining significance nowadays and they are essential to put forward a development project. As the Brazilian economist used "More than transformation, development is an invention; it entails a component of intentionally".