The discovery and oblivion. Structural inequalities and empowerment of poor : instrumentality and paradoxes of participatory development

Abstract

The extension of the market as socialness principle to planetary scale accelerates economic inequality processes in all the areas. The multilateral organizations of the development verify this "gap of the equity" in progressive amplification. A requirement of the growth in the neoliberal framework implies the dissolution of the considerations related to the structural inequality between the subjects of each transaction that are represented in so much free individuals and basically equal before competitive conditions. The structural asymmetry of power between parts (working versus entrepreneurs, among others) gave basis to the protective occupational legislation and to forms of underway current state intervention of dissolution or deregulation. At the time, the recent speech of the development emphasizes the recognition of reciprocity values, participation and the empowerment of the poors and excluded as a way toward their economic insert, with special attention to the local plan. Imply the recognition of inequalities of gender and ethnic identity. These participatives policies are conceived, in their dominant lines (World Bank; ECLAC) as complement to the State and economic reforms in key of market. In the article are examined the tensions, implementation and paradoxes of the empowerment in front the "forgetfulness" of the structural inequality in the market.