América Latina en la encrucijada del desarrollo sostenible e inclusivo: Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia y Perú al inicio del siglo XXI

We are undergoing a period of epochal change. The COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, ignoring geographic and political borders, and wove together the individual and collective experience of our condition of humanity that inhabits a single common house: our planet. At the same time, it exposed economic, social and political inequalities between and within countries. This crisis came to reinforce the citizen mobilizations that increasingly demand answers to today's great dilemma: how to meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations in a democratic and social justice framework. This chapter articulates the social, environmental and economic outcomes of Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador in the Latin American context in the first two decades of the 21st century. This research was developed within the Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas de la Universidad Católica Boliviana, IISEC.