| By employing multiple methodologies of quantitative and qualitative nature, including personal interviews, this study analyzes Ecuador's Buen Vivir development model at the nexus of social movement and post-development theories. Despite Buen Vivir's significant contributions to the larger human development conversation, this project argues that current paradoxes such as the dissolvement of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative limit Buen Vivir from marking a definitive post-development shift in South America. |
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