Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265383 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 189/2022
Publisher: 
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE), Berlin
Abstract: 
The climate crisis is inevitably looming over the horizon. Some countries are much more vulnerable than others to its harshest consequences due to their existing issues of poverty and underdevelopment. At the same time, developmental policies pursue economic growth at the cost of environmental degradation and overexploitation. This contribution focuses on the actor that is called to find a balance between the necessity to address climate change and to reach economic prosperity, namely the state, in the specific configuration of the New Developmental State. The paper explores its role and capacity to set in motion a fundamental socio-ecological transformation with the goal of harmonising the conflicting spheres of sustainable development. From a theoretical point of view, the examination is conclusive in demonstrating that the new developmental state possesses the characteristic to be a driver of socio-ecological change. In practice, the trade-off between developmental and socioecological priorities is yet to be resolved.
Subjects: 
Sustainable Development
New Developmental State
Socio-ecological transformation
Argentina
Brazil
JEL: 
F63
F64
O11
O13
Q01
Q54
Q56
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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