Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America

This 9th volume of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction. Highlighting propositions such as buen vivir, this thematic volume questions whether competing ideologies and discourses have translated into different outcomes, be it with regard to environmental sustainability, social progress, primary commodity dependence, or the rights of indigenous peoples. This collection of articles aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them.

Contributors include: Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Alberto Acosta, Ana Elizabeth Bastida, Luis Bustos, Humberto Campodonico, Gilles Carbonnier, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara, Fernando Eguren, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Eduardo Garcia, Javier Herrera, Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitan, Robert Muggah, Gianandrea Nelli Feroci, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Camilo Andres Pena Galeano, Guillermo Perry, Dario Indalecio Restrepo Botero, Sergio Tezanos Vazquez, and Frederique Weyer.