A SOUTH AMERICAN PHYSICAL INTEGRATION IN THE RECENT PERIOD (2000-2020): SITUATION, CONTINUITY, INFLECTION AND REVERSION

Abstract

In view of the process of economic globalization and the resulting investments made in the creation of connection axes to meet the growing commercialization of products and services and the circulation of people, huge differences between developed and underdeveloped countries are evident in time and space, resulting in the greatest supply and integration of road networks in favor of the former. South America, despite being historically and structurally presenting significant delays in terms of infrastructure, with connections more focused "outwards" than "inwards", given the accumulation of needs and challenges, in recent years it seemed to advance in terms of physical - territorial integration , in plans and works. Based on the interrelationship between such aspects, this article proposes to discuss the issue of transport during the period 2000-2020, with an emphasis on the policies and investments made and planned, in line with two major regional initiatives for physical integration: the Integration of South American Regional Infrastructure (IIRSA / 2000) and the Infrastructure and Planning Council (COSIPLAN / 2009). Specifically, based on a diagnosis of the recent situation of South American infrastructure, the discussion will focus on the points of continuity and inflection between such agendas between 2000-2016, with a greater focus on COSIPLAN. Since then, based on a complex political-economic scenario in South America, new conjectures and prospects about physical integration in the subcontinent are presented, indicating a movement of considerable reversal of the infrastructure issue in the subcontinent.

Keywords

• physical integration
• south america
• transport
• iirsa
• cosiplan