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
Summary
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 development in Latin America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-459) and index
