The puzzle of Latin American economic development /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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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
- Macroeconomic stabilization: a critical ingredient for sustained growth
- The role of the state: from a smaller to a smarter state
- Financing for development: public and private capital flows to Latin America
- Contemporary trade policy: engine or brakes for growth?
- Policies underpinning growth: productivity and competitiveness in the global economy
- Rural development: sowing the seeds of equitable, sustainable growth in Latin America
- Poverty and inequality: addressing the social deficit in Latin America
- Health policy: investing in people's future
- Education policy: the source of equitable, sustainable growth
- Environmental challenges: internalizing the costs of development
- Lessons learned: cycles in Latin American development.