La economía latinoamericana durante las primeras décadas del siglo XXI

Luis Bertola and José Antonio Ocampo
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José Antonio Ocampo: Columbia University, ONU

El Trimestre Económico, 2022, vol. 89 (1), issue 353, 39-71

Abstract: This paper first analyzes the performance of Latin America during the long economic cycle that took place between 1998 and 2014, which combined the regional effects of the Asian crisis with a growth phase driven by a supercycle of commodity prices. However, the expansionary phase was followed by a five-year period of economic stagnation, during which previous achievements were weakened, even before the COVID-19 crisis erupted, with its negative consequences. This confirms the persistence of the region’s economic vulnerability to external shocks, as well as the difficulties in maintaining sustained growth rates associated with processes of structural change, which make it possible to reduce the gap in the development levels vis-à-vis the leading countries and face the challenges of environmental sustainability. It is also pointed out that, despite the important achievements in terms of social development during the recent growth cycle, the high structural inequalities that characterize the region were not broken.

Keywords: Latin America; economic cycles; structural change; human development; poverty; inequality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F43 I30 L52 N16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.20430/ete.v89i353.1425

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