The economic history of Latin America since independence / Victor Bulmer-Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bulmer-Thomas, V., author.

Series:

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 77.

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 77

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--Economic conditions.

Latin America--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 481 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning with the integration of Latin America into the world trading system centered on Europe and North America during the century before 1930, this 2003 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.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables, figures, and maps; Preface to the second edition; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Latin American economic development: an overview; 2 The struggle for national identity from independence to midcentury; 3 The export sector and the world economy, circa 1850-1914; 4 Export-led growth: the supply side; 5 Export-led growth and the nonexport economy; 6 The First World War 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 period10 New trade strategies and debt-led growth; 11 Debt, adjustment, and the shift to a new paradigm; 12 Conclusions; APPENDIX 1 Data sources for population and exports before 1914; APPENDIX 2 The ratio of exports to gross domestic product, the purchasing power of exports, and the volume of exports, circa...; APPENDIX 3 Gross domestic product per head, 1913, 1928, 1980, and 2000; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-459) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13771-3

1-280-16308-9

0-511-81739-8

0-511-12141-5

0-511-06247-8

0-511-20406-X

0-511-30690-3

0-511-07093-4

OCLC:

252485601