Europe and Latin America Working Group

Session title: Latin America: Development, insecurity and exclusion. How to sort out this dilemma?

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The new pattern of Latin American development is characterised not only by macroeconomic stability and growth integration, but also by its inability to contribute to social cohesion. To poverty, unequal revenue distribution, ethnic discrimination, social segmentation, residential segregation can be added violence in its different forms, the increase of insecurity in the cities, drug trafficking and corruption. The challenge of building more equal and integrated societies is therefore still at stake.

The increase of social vulnerability for broad sectors of the population has made the elite in power and the democratic regimes lose their legitimacy for being unable to solve the everyday problems of their citizens.

The peripheral position of most of the Latin American countries at the level of the world economy has made them more vulnerable to capital flows, liberalisation without a counterbalancing social policy and the cyclical change of world trade.

In what ways will the different initiatives of regional integration allow an increase of the Latin American economic and political negotiating power and a contribution to decreasing social and territorial inequalities? What kind of initiatives and support that would increase social wellbeing and strengthen social structure can we come up with?

Conveners:
Claude Auroi
Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Développement
Switzerland
E-mail: claude.auroi@iued.unige.ch

Isabel Yépez del Castillo
Institut d'études du développement (GRIAL)
Université Catholique de Louvain
Belgium
E-mail: yepez@dvlp.ucl.ac.be

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