Desenvolvimento na América Latina: um triunfo restrito ao discurso?

Abstract

This work aims to foster reflections on the problems surrounding development planning and monitoring in the Latin American context. To do so, the importance of the responsible organs for the organization of national public elections is rescued; the emphasis being given to the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística and the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos de la República Argentina. Subsequently, it presents, through secondary data, some reflections on social development and growth in the context under study. The obtained results suggest that the development demands an articulation between sectors and levels of government, often with different perspectives and interests. Conversely, the information reported by statistical agencies may be out of the necessary legitimacy; mainly, in the function of the inadequacy to different conceptual constructions present in space. On the other hand, even recognizing the limitations, the existing indicators reveal that despite some progress, human liberties do not go forward in all fronts in Latin America. Alternatively, the region has been facing lots of difficulties to exercise satisfactorily and together with the articulation of politics, which make its development feasible.