The Conflict Between Sepa and the I M F

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How did this conflict between sepal aand the i m f overin on, emerged in the 19 fifties? And in what were the political and policy stakes of their differing interpretations. I think we can start, or what i what i try to show in the book, is that the conflict starts before it becomes ideological. It it is a question about a power and influence. Is a battle of these two institutions that are trying to assert themselves in the in latin american.

Historian Margarita Fajardo on her book The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Fajardo discusses the Latin American economists at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) who conceptualized the division of the global economy between center and periphery, and how that later gave rise to dependency theory and world systems theory. Plus Cuban Revolution and the Alliance for Progress, Allende's democratic road to socialism and right-wing coups in Chile and Brazil—and more. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig