The south’s thoughts on development: Links between Latin America and Africa

Abstract

This paper aims to epistemologically and interdisciplinary review the evolution of the concept of Development in the thoughts of the South, considering Latin American and African regions. It is presented a survey including the pioneers of Development Economics in the 1940s and 1950s, the Latin American theories of developmentalism and of dependency in the 1960s and 1970s, the theories of pan-Africanism in the 1960s and 1970s, and finally the reflection on the concept of development today considering the new center/ periphery relations, the links between Latin American and African thoughts and the topicality of its unquietness.