Governance, 2004 – 2014 Power, State, Economy and Society | John Fly

" Between 2004 and 2014, phenomena occurred that deserve mention.

The construction of infrastructure, the start of the exploitation of energy resources, the extension of education and health, the entry of important volumes of foreign capital, the growth of civil society and the awakening of citizenship. The economy grew at high paces, although supported by external savings and setting a pattern of sectoral and spatially concentrated and outgoing accumulation. Poverty has not been substantially reduced and an elite emerges, for the time being, fundamentally, by accumulation through incomes, which means the deepening of inequalities in the distribution of national income. Democracy has had setbacks, it has seen the strengthening of a neoliberal ideology and the configuration of a peripheral capitalism and, therefore, dependent and inefficient. There has been a strengthening of a consumer state apparatus of a growing and large proportion of the wealth generated, with deficits of effectiveness and departure. Some studies point to aggressive growth against the environment and unsustainable management of natural resources".

In: Introduction