It's been a long time that has become commonplace to attribute the economic boom of recent years in Argentina to the "tail wind" the favorable international conditions. After the failure of a long series of prophecies of doom, now hear voices like that of Ricardo Alfonsin saying "since 2003 was impossible not to grow" . Also often heard the phrase "what was in these years was growth, not development" . Of course not heard any journalist ask those who speak so, what made by the development when they had to govern ... latter phrase also has a crumb and is not to be thrown by the wayside or leave it relegated to a mere exchange of chicanery. There are voices not just opposing the Government have pointed out the need to establish a development strategy beyond the short-term policies. For example, in Luis Tonelli in Debate:
"The hard right, disillusioned with the party turned into 'agraphic-land movement', can not even trust the event that the electoral lottery favors a challenger. The groove Continuity is very deep to a government chosen by popular vote can change a path that is happily paying off. That right bets and gets excited, as it always has in the history of Argentina, with a terminal crisis to apologize to raze everything and start again (because of our decadence). is in the popular and democratic forces, then, to elucidate the strategic conditions of progress. Of how to transcend the simple phase of growth and address the difficult phase of development . A key issue which should be on their national energies
(...)" is not that Government devoid of a long-term view, as evidenced by the Strategic Plan Agribusiness and Agro introduced last year (by the way, in this report Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Julián Domínguez shows a remarkable clarity of ideas both technical and political aspects). But reading something like this noise keeps me as a sign of inconsistency and lack of strategic vision.
Some interesting contributions to an objective analysis of the current perspective on development found in these words journalist Diego Rubinzal:
"Still not note the existence of a coherent industrial policy, but despite that there are mechanisms and programs that have led to the emergence of new industrial SMEs and this is expressed in an advance in the participation of industry in GDP and industrial exports . Between 2003 and 2010 rose from 25 to 34 percent of the export basket. "" I think we should move forward in the fine tuning of industrial policy, but it is necessary to consider the context. Some young officers of the Ministry of Industry once told me that they would have needed to have a generation up to teach them how to move forward with an industrial policy. The destruction of state capacity during the military dictatorship and Menem is a cost that we are still paying. We must take into account where it started. "
course, the meaning of the word" development "goes beyond sectoral policies and can only be understood in all its magnitude when taken as objective conduct and dignity of all people in the nation. And just several of the events that occupied the attention of the media in recent times have their origin in the development of Argentina is an unfinished task. The cases of slave labor, the footage and land claims, conflicts affecting indigenous peoples communities, are just some of the consequences arising out of backwardness and underdevelopment and neglect of their duties by the state for many decades.
A key concept of a development plan should be to promote and ensure decent working and living conditions of people in their homes. As an example of national shortcomings in this regard, the president of INTI, Enrique Martinez, wrote here about the origins of "work swallow" and the structural poverty in Santiago del Estero, and its consequences continue to show today. On another note this , Martinez says things like:
"The state must make an effort to build an industrial structure where people live to stop migrating. To cite one case in Villa Atamisqui, Santiago del Estero, there are about three thousand people whose job is to migrate every year. There he could exploit the Dulce River, which are five kilometers, which never became a channel level or an irrigation system that allows plant in the region. By doing so, employ such people would be child's play. "
" The depopulation of the soybean technology displaces labor. In many places they stopped producing milk, which requires large amounts of skilled labor. But we can industrialize soybeans, not only to meal and oil. For example, use it to fatten animals and food production on a regional scale. "
" If the model involves low-skilled workers and high physical effort, the production system does not work. We must create a work program to reduce side swallow and their situations. If migration is to work only, no society with a future. "
are opinions like these that make me think, among other things, the failure and depletion of the concept of" growth with social inclusion and the need to move , both in speeches and in the action, an emphasis on development in all its aspects. Something also needs to expand the policy call "project national and popular. "Because the words of a paragraph of Project Document Strategic Plan referred to above Food:
" Perón argued that 'the government plan is not an improvisation, but the product of a deep meditation; a large collection of records relating to the problems the country has had many years ago '. But none of this can be achieved without great enthusiasm. In this regard, said that 'rule is to seek ways to achieve the public good. No doubt the determination of such high purpose is not possible without the spur of the illusion. And my great dream, I've said repeatedly, is the enlargement of Argentina '. "
PS: To those interested, I highly recommend this report in Cash economist and researcher Jorge Katz.
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