The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) was created to provide a technical solution to the multiple problems of social and economic development in the region, as a cooperation mechanism that sought to obtain a specific goal: “economic and social, individual and collective development of the emerging regional member countries”, giving priority to projects of an integrationist nature. This priority associates the Bank's role with the functionalist current. This paper will try to show that the IDB is assimilated to the functionalist theory of community integration, which formulates that national political systems are inadequate to solve many problems due to the interdependent nature of the modern world and that therefore it is obvious that the solution of technical problems at the regional or global level must be solved by international technical organizations.
Keywords:
Inter-American Development Bank, Latin America, Inter-American Relations, Integration, Functionalism
Author Biography
Hernán Sierralta
Ex especialistad del BID. Egresado del Magister del Instituto de Ciencia Política de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
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