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The ECLAC model in the Socialism of the 21st Century in Ecuador

Abstract

The industrialization models of ECLAC, developed during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and those of Ecuador, implemented by the 21st-century socialist government, are similar in their attempt to industrialize through the substitution of imports and government expenditure. In both cases, the economic policies focused on a closed economy, with high tariff barriers, and a strong role of the state as the main actor in the economy. The article uses a comparative method of analysis
which emphasizes the outcomes of both of the periods studied. The results show that the models applied brought the same problems; imbalance in external trade and rising public debt. An alternative premise is suggested, that the models applied are the main causes of the debt crisis in the 1980s and the increasing public debt in the government of Rafael Correa.

Keywords

ISI, industrialization, import substitution, ECLAC, Ecuador, socialism of the 21st century, Rafael Correa

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Author Biography

Christian Paul Naranjo Navas

Doctor in Economic History from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Researcher at Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo (Ecuador). Last published works: «Considering unemployment in Ecuador during the Great Depression, 1928-1935», Historia Autónoma 18 (2021): 109-127. «Christianity and its Civil Disobedience Philosophy», Revista de Filosofía vol. 38, n° 97 (2021): 198-212. «China y sus Intereses en América Latina», Kairós. Revista de Ciencias Económicas, Jurídicas y Adminsitrativas vol. 3, n° 5 (2020): 62-75.


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