Sud, développement et développement durable: l'apport de l'économie politique

Catherine Figuière ()
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Catherine Figuière: LEPII - Laboratoire d'Economie de la Production et de l'Intégration Internationale - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper addresses the issue of sustainable development for South countries. It offers a political economy approach of the coming of the Brundtland version of sustainable development. The aim is to show that this consensus seeking version does not offer a renewal of development approach because it does not require a change of paradigm. The guiding principles of the Brundtland report, widely accepted by the United Nations' system, do not offer a hierarchy among the three poles, and thus do not question the prevailing central position of economic goals - whereas the ecodevelopment project in the 1970's was to integrate the environmental constraint in a human needs satisfaction perspective. In this context we present the 'Rio paradigm' as a mere thematical extension of the Washington Consensus, thus bringing both more complexity and higher costs for development process in the South.

Keywords: political economy; sustainable development; ecodevelopment; South countries; économie politique; développement durable; écodéveloppement; Pays en Voie de Développement; développement économique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-09
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Published in VertigO : La revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement, 2006, 7 (2), 10 p

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