El Banco Mundial y la Visión Capitalista del Desarrollo: Hacia el Avance del Debate Sobre lo Social

Abstract

The World Bank (BM) searches the economic and social development through reforms that benefits the capital, using politics tools like market adjustments, institutions and increasement of the economic growth. The liberalization of the capital accounts and trade barriers, privatizations, more subsidy to the demand, fiscal adjustments and others are commonly told as the ideal way of an economy to emerge from poverty. This article is putting in doubt the BM’s narrative. In first place, the employment and economic growth according to social, biologic, psychologic and natural needs is spoken; later on, the essay will treat the reductionist view about helping the capital way of production and the markets; at last, the text concludes with considerations around the social constitution in the economy.