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 before 1930, this book takes its narrative from the end of the colonial epoch to the present, and provides a comprehensive balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic developmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bulmer-Thomas, V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Cambridge Latin American studies ; 77.
Subjects:
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Economic history
Economic policy
Wirtschaft
Economia (história)
Latin America > Economic conditions.
Latin America > Economic policy.
Amérique latine > Conditions économiques.
Amérique latine > Politique économique.
Latin America
Lateinamerika
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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