Plustrabajo (no. 1 mar 2010)

En esta edición, el tema central de investigación es la crisis económica internacional, abordando su complejidad desde diferentes aristas y ámbitos, pero asumiendo su carácter sistémico e inherente a las contradicciones propias de la economía capitalista.La globalización bajo el dominio de las finanzas; Crisis estructural: Gestación y perspectivas; El impacto de la crisis en América Latina; La crisis global y su impacto en la economía real; Crisis economica internacional: Una mirada desde los países del Este europeo; La crisis económica mundial y la política de comercio exterior de la Unión Europea; Crisis mundial e impacto sobre la economía de Argentina

Strategies against poverty : designs from the North and alternatives from the South

This book presents the contributions of African and Latin American experts on economic development to the seminar Strategies against poverty: Designs from the North and Alternatives from the South organized by the Conferencia Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO, the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, CROP and the South- South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of development, SEPHIS. The purpose of the seminar was to open space for debate, from a historical perspective, alternative theoretical approaches on the causes of poverty and to explore the, sometimes diverging, strategies to its eradication as proposed by the North, donors and multilateral organizations, and by the South, governments and non-governmental organizations. The particular interest in studying poverty in the context of developing countries, often called the South, is to show the profound socio-economic inequalities existing in these countries and the problems that result when the programs structured to mitigate poverty are, in too many cases, a mere incorporation to local scenarios of the universal policies, from international and funding agencies. These programs made with the idea that one size fits all, ignore the needs, priorities and realities of individual countries and regions and only meet the North´s neoliberal paradigms. There is no need to stress the relevance of comparative analysis of the effects of colonial and neo-colonial powers to understand the factors constraining economic growth in developing countries. The works presented in this volume constitute one step in the direction of finding both, similar problems and akin solutions and to envision policies that respond to local and national history, conditions and priorities.Introduction. Looking Proper Answers in African, Latin American and Caribbean Countries / Samwel Ongwen Okuro and Alicia Puyana Mutis. First Part: Theoretical Alternatives for a Comprehensive Analysis of Anti-Poverty Strategies. 1.1. Neoliberal and Neo-Colonial Governmentality: Social Policies and Strategies against Poverty from the North and Alternatives from the South The Case of South America and the Caribbean / Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón. 1.2. Public Investment for Economic Development and Poverty Reduction: Theoretical and Empirical analysis / Cristina Fróes de Borja Reis. 1.3. Economic Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction: A Comparative Analysis of Chile and Mexico with References to Argentina, Brazil and Colombia / Alicia Puyana Mutis. Second Part: Poverty Diagnosis from the South. 2.1. Social Policy in the Neoliberal Order: Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes as Mechanisms of political Legitimacy in Latin America / Andrés García Trujillo. 2.2. Ownership Question and Poverty Reduction Strategy in Nigeria: What Has Gone Wrong? / Eugene Ndubuisi Nweke. Third Part: Proposals to Alternative Policy Designs for Poverty Eradication. 3.1. Structural Adjustment and the Neglect of Intergenerational Poverty in the Caribbean / Dennis A. V. Brown. 3.2. Poverty Reduction in Ghana: Alternative Solutions by the State / John Gasu. 3.3. Fighting the Poverty War: Non-Governmental Organisations and the Challenge of Poverty eradication in Nigeria / Akinpelu O. Olutayo & Olayinka Akanle. 3.4. Rethinking World Bank Driven Land Tenure Reforms in Kenya / Samwel Ongwen Okuro. 3.5. The Macroeconomic Limits of Incomes Policy in a Dependent Country: The Need and Possibilities for Radical Reforms in Social Policies in Argentina after the Crisis (2001-2008)/ Mariano Féliz. 3.6. State Failure, Poverty and Productive Structure / Erik S. Reinert, Rainer Kattel and Yves Ekoué Amaïzo

De la democracia liberal a la soberanía popular. Vol. 2 : gobiernos latinoamericanos: los desafíos del Estado, la acumulación y la seguridad

Hacia finales del siglo pasado, los cuestionamientos al férreo consenso neoliberal que prevaleció en América Latina desde la década del ochenta, dieron lugar al surgimiento de movimientos y organizaciones populares con fuerte capacidad de interpelación, así como a gobiernos que, elegidos democráticamente, se presentaban como un giro a la izquierda y una alternativa a las políticas de corte neoliberal llevadas a cabo hasta entonces. Los estragos que la crisis económica de aquellos años causó a la población, colaboró con el quiebre de las bases del consenso sobre las que el programa neoliberal se sostenía. La amenaza de inflación o desempleo como alternativas a la política de ajuste aparecían como riesgos peores que la realidad tal como se mostraba. Inscrita en esta crisis, en algunos países de la región la movilización social desbordó los canales institucionales de atención a las demandas, desestabilizando así a la hegemonía neoliberal y provocando cambios políticos importantes