The economic history of Latin America since independence

Bibliographic Information

The economic history of Latin America since independence

Victor Bulmer-Thomas

(Cambridge Latin American studies, 77)

Cambridge University Press, 1994

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

Available at  / 47 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-475) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Economic History of Latin America seeks to explain why, despite the region's abundance of natural resources and a favourable ratio of land to labour, not a single republic of Latin America has achieved the status of a developed country after nearly two centuries free from colonial rule. Taking its narrative from the end of the colonial epoch to the early 1990s, this book provides a comprehensive, balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic progress in Latin America. This book explains the successes and failures of export-led growth in the nineteenth century, and the withdrawal, after the depression of 1929, of many countries into a model of import-substitution industrialization. The debt crisis of the 1980s effectively ended hopes for the inward-looking approach, however, and the author examines the routes through which Latin American republics pursued a new version of export-led growth.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Latin American economic development: an overview
  • 2. The struggle for national identity - from independence to mid-century
  • 3. The export sector and the world economy: c. 1850-1914
  • 4. Export-led growth - the supply side
  • 5. Export-led growth and the non-export economy
  • 6. World War I and its aftermath
  • 7. Policy, performance and structural change in the 1930s
  • 8. War and the new international economic order
  • 9. Inward-looking development in the postwar period
  • 10. New trade strategies and debt-led growth
  • 11. Debt, adjustment and recovery.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Related Books: 1-1 of 1

Details

Page Top