«Desarrollismo» e infraestructura energética: el proyecto de la usina del Dock Sud en Buenos Aires, 1955-1962

Raúl García Heras
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Raúl García Heras: Profesor Adjunto de Historia Económica en la Universidad de Buenos Aires e Investigador del CONICET en el IIEP-BAIRES, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, 2018, vol. 14, issue 02, 107-117

Abstract: Based on unpublished Argentine and foreign primary sources, this article analyses the role of the World Bank in the financing of a basic infrastructure project carried out by the State to solve electric power supply shortages in the city of Buenos Aires and its suburbs in the 1960s. It examines the energy crisis that led to its formulation and early execution, as well as the reasons why the Argentine government subsequently reformulated the earlier project and requested assistance to the World Bank in order to complete it. Also discussed are the difficulties tackled in order to achieve its aims in the wake of the failure of an earlier energy strategy that contemplated the co-existence of state, private, and mixed companies. In the conclusions, the significance of this case-study for Argentina's creditworthiness abroad are discussed, as an example of World Bank loan policies in Latin America, and underlying difficulties for the Argentine government after accepting the “conditionality” criteria of this institution. KEY Classification-JEL: F34. F35. N26. O19

Keywords: Desarrollismo-América; Latina.; Energía; eléctrica-América; Latina.; Banco; Mundial-América; Latina.; Préstamos; internacionales-América; Latina (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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