9th Workshop on New Developmentalism – Distribution without Growth?

YSI-Session at the Workshop on New Developmentalism: Redistribution Without Growth?   

The New Developmentalism (ND) is a theoretical framework that has been developed by prominent economists in Brazil since the early 2000s. It has been developed to comprehend the growth and development dynamics of middle-income countries, in particular, Latin America. The theory, based largely on classical development economics and post-Keynesian economics, has brought important contributions to the field of political economy and development macroeconomics. This year, the workshop will focus on the relationship between economic growth and income redistribution, assessing how each may enable or constrain the other. It aims to explore policy and strategy designs that achieve both objectives simultaneously, with a particular emphasis on opportunities emerging from the ecological transition.

The 9th Workshop on New Developmentalism will be an event composed of lectures, conferences by a keynote speaker (such as two Lectures by Professor Gabriel Palma), and panels of paper presentations on themes related to economic development and income distribution in emerging countries. In this way, it seeks to stimulate debate and understanding of possible unconventional strategies for catching up with income redistribution in developing countries. More specifically, it looks to stimulate debate, production, and the strengthening of a network of researchers on macroeconomic and development theory from an unconventional approach.

This year, the Complexity Economic WG and the Latin American Working Group of YSI-INET, jointly with CND-FGV, are pleased to invite you to participate in our YSI Sessions and to submit your manuscript for the YSI sessions for an article (work-in-progress) presentation. We encourage submissions that broadly fall within the topics of the conference (see below), such as:

• The relationship between growth and income distribution?
• Political economy of development (developmental capitalism x liberal capitalism, the developmental state)
• How to expand New Developmentalism reach to overcome current development challenges?
• Extensions of new developmentalism (green growth strategies, economic policies to reduce inequalities).
• Analysis of the development strategies of countries of the global south.
• Labor market dynamics and their relationship with structural change
• Models and empirical research focused on the relation between macroeconomic development, climate change and structural change.
• Why and how to manage the five macroeconomic prices (exchange rate, wage rate, profit rate, interest rate, and inflation) to promote economic development?
• Why are the exchange rate and the current account so important in the investment function?

The YSI sessions will be composed of one masterclass by Professor Gabriel Palma and multiple sessions for young scholars to present their work and receive comments and feedback from senior scholars. High-quality papers may be selected to fast-track publication at the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy.

Application: Please make your application by following the form button.

Deadline: The deadline for submitting papers (or work in progress) is September 30, 23:59pm.

More information and the preliminary program of the workshop can be seen here: https://shorturl.at/LzMv7

Travel and accommodation costs: Selected participants (young scholars) may be eligible for partial funding stipends from YSI-INET. In the application form, please indicate you are applying for the funds.

Further information can be requested by contacting tiago.porto@fgv.br or cnd@fgv.br