The puzzle of Latin American economic development
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The puzzle of Latin American economic development
Rowman & Littlefield, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-499) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This textbook offers basic economic tools for students to understand the problems facing the countries of Latin America. After a brief historical overview, Patrice Franko builds a contemporary model of regional development. She explores the contradictions of growth, especially in the context of overcoming intractable problems of poverty, education, health and discrimination. Inviting students to view challenges through the eyes of policy-makers, the text encourages a critical assessment of past and present policy choices. Data exercises promote research skills and highlight the diversity of development experiences in the region. Liberally interspersed with examples and case studies, the author combines theory and its application in the real world. The text simultaneously challenges strong students while clarifying the fundamentals for novices. By exploring the difficult choices facing Latin American policy-makers, the author gives readers interested in economics or in Latin American studies the conceptual means to understand the puzzle of strong, sustainable, and equitable growth in the region.
Table of Contents
- Development in Latin America - conceptualizing economic change in the region
- historical legacies - patterns of unequal and unstable growth
- import substitution industrialization - looking inward for the source of economic growth
- Latin America's debt crisis - the limits of external financing
- price stabilization - a critical ingredient for sustained growth
- the role of the state - defining a desirable and sustainable level of state activity
- new international capital flows - the benefits (and hidden costs) of Latin America's return to markets
- contemporary trade policy - engine or brakes for growth? International industrial competitiveness - improving the quality of labour, technology and infrastructure agricultural policy - sowing the seeds of equitable, sustainable growth in Latin America
- health and education - the source of equitable, sustainable growth
- environmental challenges -internalizing the costs of development
- lesson learned - cycles in Latin American development.
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