Open AccessProgressive structural change in the Central American integration process
Author(s) -
Jorge Mario Martínez–Piva
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista de fomento social
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2695-6462
pISSN - 0015-6043
DOI - 10.32418/rfs.2020.296.3307
Subject(s) - industrialisation , operationalization , deindustrialization , sustainable development , economic system , urbanization , structural adjustment , economics , political science , economic growth , economy , market economy , philosophy , epistemology , law
The intellectual history of ECLAC has been one of “continuity with changes”. These changes allowed adjusting policy proposals and action plans to the ever–changing international environment.
ECLAC has proposed to the Central American region mainly three development models in the last 70 years: the first one, to overcome the agro–export phase based on primary products (“outward development”) ECLAC proposed a process of industrialization and urbanization (“inward development” or “industrialization by import substitution”; the second one, was the integration with the global economy along with strengthening regional integration (“open regionalism”); and the third, more recently, a productive transformation with emphasis in equality (“progressive structural change”).
The objective of this paper is to identify a set of economic policies that could operationalize recent ECLAC’s development proposal called “progressive structural change”. The progressive structural change groups strong ideas based on the need to renew productive policy, promote sustainable development and place equality at the center of public policy actions.