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Neo-structuralism is a heterodox approach to economic development. It emerged in Latin America, in the 1980s, in the context of the Debt Crisis, the spread of neoliberalism and financial globalization, as an updated version of the ECLAC’s Structuralist approach to development. Neo-structuralism deepened the analysis on structural heterogeneity, and its implications for the design of macroeconomic and productive development policies, seeking to promote an inclusive development path.

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    This collection of essays of several authors was the result of a research project led by Osvaldo Sunkel in the late 1980s. A Spanish version was published in 1991.

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  1. University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

  2. ECLAC, Santiago, Chile

    Miguel Torres

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  1. Dept. of Economics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA

    Matias Vernengo

  2. Economic Development Division, Economic Commission for Latin America an, Santiago, RM - Santiago, Chile

    Esteban Perez Caldentey

  3. James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA

    Barkley J. Rosser Jr

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  2. The National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

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Ffrench-Davis, R., Torres, M. (2021). Neo-structuralism. In: Vernengo, M., Caldentey, E.P., Rosser Jr, B.J. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_3122-1

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