The Influence of Dependency Theory in Development Discourses of Latin America
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Dependence Theory has been deemed as an obsolete approach for the study of Latin-American reality. The success in other peripheral geographic areas that managed to position themselves at the core of the world economy by the end of the 20th century apparently meant that the said theory was not valid anymore. However, the Latin-American countries are still not capable to correct the structural deficiencies that inspired the inception of the dependence, as they are still today significantly dependent on the raw material trading. This paper aims to resume the debate on the Dependence Theory in order to recover some valuable insights for the reflection on the current socioeconomic trends in this region. This work attempts, in turn, to redefine the most rigid and obsolete theoretical aspects of the Dependence Theory in order to underline how it influenced current development discourses. In this vein, this paper highlights the parallel facts between the Dependence Theory and the academic literature on development and primary resources.
Keywords
Dependence Theory, Latin America, primary resource curse, raw material trading, raw material volatility.Teoría de la dependencia, América Latina, maldición de recursos primarios, comercialización de materias primas, volatilidad de materias primas.
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Beigel, F. (2006). Vida, Muerte, y Resurrección de las “Teorías de la Dependencia”. En B. Levy (ed.), Crítica y Teoría en el Pensamiento Social Latinoamericano (pp. 287-326). Clacso.
Blaney, D. (1996). Reconceptualizing Autonomy: The Difference Dependency Theory Makes. Review of International Political Economy, 3(3), 459-497.
Blattman, C., Hwang, J., y Williamson, J. (2007). Winners and Losers in the Commodity Lottery: The Impact of Terms of Trade Growth and Volatility in the Periphery 1870-1939. Journal Of Development Economics, 82(1), 156-179.
Boschini, A., Pettersson, J., y Roine, J. (2007). Resource Curse or Not: A Question of Appropriability. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 109(3), 593-617.
Bourguignon, F., y Verdier, T. (2000). Oligarchy, Democracy, Inequality and Growth. Journal of Development Economics, 62(2), 285-313.
Bull, B., y Bøås, M. (2012). Between Ruptures and Continuity: Modernisation, Dependency and the Evolution of Development Theory. Forum for Development Studies, 39(3), 319-336.
Bulmer-Thomas, V. (1994). The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence. Cambridge University Press.
Burchardt, H., y Dietz, K. (2014). (Neo-)extractivism, a New Challenge for Development Theory from Latin America. Third World Quarterly, 35(3), 468-486.
Caporaso, J., y Zare, B. (1981). Interpretation and Evaluation of Dependency Theory. En H. Muñoz (ed.), From Dependency to Development (pp. 43-56). Westview Press.
Cardoso, F. (1973). Associated-dependent Development: Theoretical and Practical Implication. En A. Stepan (ed.), Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future (pp. 142-176). Yale University Press.
Cardoso, F., y Faletto, E. (1979). Dependency and Development in Latin America. University of California Press.
Corden, M. (1984). Booming Sector and Dutch Disease Economics: Survey and Consolidation. Oxford Economic Papers, 36(3), 359-380.
Corden, W., y Neary, J. (1982). Booming Sector and De-Industrialisation in a Small Open Economy. The Economic Journal, 92(368), 825-848.
Deaton, A. (1999). Commodity Prices and Growth in Africa. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 13(3), 23-40.
Dos Santos, T. (1970). The Structure of Dependence. The American Economic Review, 60(2), 231-236.
Dos Santos, T. (1973). The Crisis of Development Theory and the Problem of Dependence in Latin America. En H. Bernstein (ed.), Underdevelopment and Development; The Third World Today. Penguin.
Duvall, R. (1978). Dependence and Dependency Theory. International Organization, 32(1), 51-78.
Evans, P. (1987). Class, State, and Dependence in East Asia: Lessons for Latin Americanists. In F. Deyo (ed.), The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism (pp. 203-226). Cornell University Press.
Frank, A. (1967). Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. Monthly Review Press.
Furtado, C. (1973). La Economía Latinoamericana desde la Conquista Ibérica hasta la Revolución Cubana. Siglo XXI Editores.
Goderis, B., y Malone, S. (2011). Natural Resource Booms and Inequality: Theory and Evidence. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 113(2), 388-417.
Godfrey, M. (1980). Editorial: Is Dependency Dead? The IDS Bulletin, 12(1), 1-4.
Gordon, W. (1965). The Political Economy of Latin America. Columbia University Press.
Hirschman, A. (1987). The Political Economy of Latin American Development: Seven Exercises in Retrospection. Latin American Research Review, 22(3), 7-36.
Isham, J., Woolcock, M., Pritchett, L., y Busby, G. (2005). The Varieties of Resource Experience: Natural Resource Export Structures and the Political Economy of Economic Growth. World Bank Economic Review, 19(2), 141-174.
Jaguaribe, H., Ferrer, A., y Wionczek, M. (1968) La dependencia político-económica de América Latina. Siglo XXI Editores.
Kay, C. (1989). Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment. Routledge.
Muñoz, H. (1981). From Dependency to Development. Westview Press.
OECD, Eclac, y CAF. (2016). Latin American Economic Outlook 2017: Youth, Skills and Entrepreneurship. OECD Publishing.
Ortiz, J. (2012). Déjà vu: Latin America and Its New Trade Dependency…This Time with China. Latin American Research Review, 47(3), 175-190.
Packenham, R. (1992). The Dependency Movement. Harvard University Press.
Palma, G. (1978). Dependency: a formal theory of underdevelopment or a methodology for the analysis of concrete situations of underdevelopment? World Development, 6(7-8), 881-924.
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo. (2016). Reporte del desarrollo humano de América Latina y el Caribe. http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-report-latin-america-and-carribbean-2016
Sachs, J., y Warner, A. (1995). Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth. En G. Meier y J. Rauch (eds.), Leading Issues in Economic Development (pp. 161-167). Oxford University Press.
Sánchez, O. (2003). The Rise and Fall of the Dependency Movement. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina, 14(2), 31-50.
Skidmore, T., y Smith, P. (1992) Modern Latin America. Oxford University Press.
Smith, P. (2012). Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press.
Tavares, R. (2017). Los Latinoamericanos están volviendo a caer en la pobreza, pero las inversiones de impacto pueden revertir esa preocupante tendencia. World Economic Forum on Latin America. https://www.weforum.org/es/agenda/2017/04/los-latinoamericanos-estan-volviendo-a-caer-en-la-pobreza-pero-las-inversiones-de-impacto-pueden-revertir-esa-preocupante-tendencia/
Tsounta, E., y Osueke, A. (2014). What Is Behind Latin America’s Declining Income Inequality? (Documento de trabajo WP/14/124). Fondo Monetario Internacional.
Van der Ploeg, F., y Poelhekke, S. (2009). Volatility and the Natural Resource Curse. Oxford Economic Papers, 61(4), 727-760.
How to Cite
Zambrano Marquez, D. M. (2020). The Influence of Dependency Theory in Development Discourses of Latin America. Papel Político, 25. https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.papo25.itdd (Original work published February 17, 2021)
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Dossier de América Latina, editado por: Iratxe Perea Ozerin, U. del País Vasco
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