%0 Journal Article
%T The evolution of development conventions
%A Erber
%A Fabio Stefano
%J Revista de Economia Contemporanea
%D 2012
%I Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
%R 10.1590/S1415-98482012000100001
%X this paper presents a conceptual view on development and its translation into development policies. it argues that society's perception of development is structured by conventions, which provide a view of the past, present and future and, at the same time, allows a certain hierarchy of problems and solutions to such problems. the prevalence of a specific convention depends on the international conditions faced by this society and on the distribution of economic and political power within that society. therefore, in complex societies there is always a struggle for hegemony between competing development conventions.
%K development
%K convention
%K policies
%K political economy.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1415-98482012000100001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en