Reflections on neo-developmentalism in the light of the Lula’s governments

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Vinicius Rezende Carretoni Vaz
Isaías Albertín de Moraes

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Since the mid-2000s, the maintenance of the orthodox macroeconomic regime of the Lula’s governments surprised several intellectuals in the applied social sciences sector. What marks Lula’s government, especially, are two characteristics: i) the economic growth with the commodities boom or the commodities super cycle, and ii) the fight against poverty. This second phenomenon propitiated for a group of intellectuals to formulate the thesis that Brazil would be in a process of “social developmentalism”. On the other hand, a fraction of economists met to formulate a new theory, the “new developmentalism”, criticizing the process of de-industrialization, debt crisis and external dependence that occurred in Brazil. These two theoretical currents formed what some academics called “neo-developmentalism”. This article proposes to make a critical reflection and differentiation on the two currents. 

Palabras clave:
economic development, Latin America development, new developmentalism

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Vinicius Rezende Carretoni Vaz, Universidad de São Paulo

Doctor por el Programa Interunidades para la Integración de América Latina de la Universidad de São Paulo. Miembro afiliado a la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Economía Política y Pensamiento Crítico (SEPLA

Isaías Albertín de Moraes, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP)

Doctor en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP). Investigador Asociado del Centro de Extensión e Investigación en Solidaridad, Economía Creativa y Ciudadanía de la UNESP/FCLAr.

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