Fernando Fajnzylber

Fernando Fajnzylber (born April 15, 1940 in Santiago de Chile , † December 28, 1991 there ) was a Chilean economist . In the 1980s he designed as the new architects of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean to neostructuralism .

history

Fajnzylber comes from a family of Jewish emigrants. Between 1958 and 1963 he studied economics at the Universidad de Chile . He then worked as an advisor to various UN organizations in Brazil. From 1971 to 1973 he worked as the head of foreign trade relations in the Banco Central de Chile. After the coup in Chile in 1973 against the Allende government, he had to flee Chile. From 1980 to 1986 he was head of the United Nations Industrial Development Office in Mexico City . His work on the technological modernization of Latin American industry made him an influential development economist. In 1986 he became head of the industrial division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) . Since the mid-1980s, Fajnzylber, the intellectual leader of the ECLAC, succeeded in moving it to turn away from the “old thinking” of structuralism . With the studies Transformación Productiva con Equidad (economic structural change and social equilibrium) and Transformación Productiva, Equidad y Sustentabilidad (structural change, social equality and ecological sustainability), published in 1989 and 1991, he succeeded in formulating a model that gave the ECLAC a new direction that also differed significantly from the neoliberal mainstream of the 1980s ( Washington Consensus ). The new direction was called neostructuralism .

Web links

GIZ.de: Fernando Fajnzylber (1940 - 1991) - Authentic competitiveness through institutional reforms

Individual evidence

^ Claudio Maggi, Dirk Messner: Fernando Fajnzylber (1940–1991) Authentic competitiveness through institutional reforms . In: D + C Development and Cooperation , No. 7/8, July / August, pp. 200–203.
↑ Fernando Ignacio Leiva: Latin American Neostructuralism: The Contradictions of Post-Neoliberal Development . University of Minnesota Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0816653287 , p. 4.

personal data
SURNAME	Fajnzylber, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean economist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santiago de Chile
DATE OF DEATH	December 28, 1991
Place of death	Santiago de Chile

[1] Claudio Maggi, Dirk Messner: Fernando Fajnzylber (1940–1991) Authentic competitiveness through institutional reforms . In: D + C Development and Cooperation , No. 7/8, July / August, pp. 200–203.

[2] Fernando Ignacio Leiva: Latin American Neostructuralism: The Contradictions of Post-Neoliberal Development . University of Minnesota Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0816653287 , p. 4.