Do protecionismo ao liberalismo: o paradoxo das potências africanas para o desenvolvimento e inserção internacional (1999-2020)

Abstract

The nations divided between liberal and nationalist need to deal with the dilemmas that arise due to globalization that challenges them to open up, in contrast to the need to structure the national industrial network. As discussed, the current research has the purpose of understanding the importance of economic policies to economic growth and national development, especially the effectiveness of nationalist or liberal policies in developing countries in Africa. It was possible to develop the present work commencing from explanatory studies based on the bibliographic review. Taking as the main hypothesis that protectionist and nationalist policies obtain better results when they produce valorization of national production, as well as creation and expansion of the industrial network and once these points are reached, they move to liberalize policies through international participation. Have been concluded that countries that embraced protectionist policies managed to expand economic growth, therefore, without any meaningful variations in national development, regarding the productive diversification and valorization of human capital. On the other hand, those who opted for liberal policies are witnessing slow but stable growth, accompanied by human development and productive diversification.