Post-pandemic South American Conjuncture: An Interpretation Proposal

Abstract: This paper proposes to verify the recurring impacts of economic crises, in its political and health magnitude, and now the combined effects of the pandemic that decimated thousands of lives in the largest countries in South America. The focus will be on how certain macroeconomic indicators relate to Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and neostructuralist interpretations in a representative way of the region’s economic dynamics, with the objective of showing the interrupted trajectory of economic growth, and evidence of the political, social and economic conjuncture, the weaknesses of the region and emphasis on the recurrence of health issues (epidemics, endemics and now the pandemic) and the productive structure. From a survey of relevant views about the South American structure in which Latin American education in general weighs, and from main indicators of the recent conjuncture, we realized that the main difficulty faced in the economic crisis was the overlapping of the negative effects of the closure of trade and the deficient structure in most of the region, something that evidenced the dependence of the first sector and even of the advanced countries.

Key words: ECLAC and structuralist approach, South American economic conjuncture, economic development, pandemic economic crisis