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The economic history of Latin America since independence

"Beginning with the integration of Latin America into the world trading system centered on Europe and North America during the century before 1930, this book explores the successes and failures of export-led growth. Using new data on exports and a simple model to explore the relationship between exports and growth, the author pays particular attention to the question that has most concerned policy-makers in Latin America: how to transfer growth in the export sector to the rest of the economy, raising living standards and real income per head. The author examines the routes through which Latin American republics extricated themselves from the debt problem in pursuit of a new version of export-led growth. Taking its narrative from the end of the colonial epoch to the present, this book provides a comprehensive balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic development in Latin America."--Publisher description
Print Book, English, 2003
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2003
xxii, 481 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521825672, 9780521532747, 0521825679, 0521532744
51040048
Latin American economic development : an overview
The struggle for national identity
from independence to mid-century
The export sector and the world economy : c.1850-1914
Export-led growth
the supply side
Export-led growth and the non-export economy
The First World War and its aftermath
Policy, performance, and structural change in the 1930s
War and the new international economic order
Inward-looking development in the postwar period
New trade strategies and debt-led growth
Debt, adjustment, and the shift to a new paradigm
Conclusions