Impact of Economic Vulnerability on Sustainable Development

The purpose of this article is to address economic vulnerability in sustainable development. The population of poor countries has a state that does not guarantee them minimum conditions of survival and sustenance, and in the pursuit of personal and social growth there is no concern with sustainable development. Countries that are in increasing poverty show a population that exploits the environment to its last resources. Therefore, the main objective is to address how countries with low economic and social development tend to exhaust natural resources in order to guarantee their livelihoods, while neglecting the need for sustainable development. Thus, the article was divided into three topics: the first dealing with sustainable development, the second on the financial and economic crisis and its social and environmental impacts, and finally the third dealing with how the crisis and the economic vulnerability of a country may result in the extraction of the available natural sources for their sustenance.The present research closes with the final considerations, in which are highlighted aspects about the environmental depletion in countries of low development. In the various phases of the research, the techniques of referent, category, operational concept and bibliographic research.