The Economic History of Latin America since Independence

Cover
Half-title
Series-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Tables, figures, and maps
	Tables
	Figures
	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
	The colonial legacy
	The economic consequences of independence
	The free-trade question
	The export sector
	The nonexport economy
	Regional differences
3 The export sector and the world economy, circa 1850–1914
	World demand and the export-led growth model
	Export performance
	Export cycles
	The pattern of external trade
	The terms of trade and international transport costs
4 Export-led growth: the supply side
	The labor market
	Land
	Capital markets
	Foreign investment
	The policy context
5 Export-led growth and the nonexport economy
	Domestic-use agriculture
	Manufacturing and its origins
	Industry and relative prices
	Regional differences on the eve of the First World War
6 The First World War and its aftermath
	The collapse of the old order
	Trade strategies
	Exchange-rate, financial, and fiscal reform
	External shocks, relative prices, and the manufacturing sector
7 Policy, performance, and structural change in the 1930s
	The Depression of 1929
	Short-term stabilization
	Recovery from the Depression
	The international environment and the export sector
	Recovery of the nonexport economy
	The transition toward inward-looking development
8 War and the new international economic order
	Trade and industry in the Second World War
	Trade surpluses, fiscal policy, and inflation
	The postwar dilemma
	The new international economic order
9 Inward-looking development in the postwar period
	The inward-looking model
	Outward-looking countries
	Regional integration
	Growth, income distribution, and poverty
10 New trade strategies and debt-led growth
	Export promotion
	Export substitution
	Primary-export development
	The state, public enterprise, and capital accumulation
	Debt-led growth
11 Debt, adjustment, and the shift to a new paradigm
	From debt crisis to debt burden
	External adjustment
	Internal adjustment, stabilization, and the exchange-rate problem
	Growth, equity, and inflation since the debt crisis
	Latin America and globalization
12 Conclusions
APPENDIX 1 Data sources for population and exports before 1914
	Population
	Exports
	Argentina
	Bolivia
	Brazil
	Chile
	Colombia
	Costa Rica
	Cuba
	Dominican Republic
	Ecuador
	El Salvador
	Guatemala
	Haiti
	Honduras
	Mexico
	Nicaragua
	Paraguay
	Peru
	Puerto Rico
	Uruguay
	Venezuela
APPENDIX 2 The ratio of exports to gross domestic product, the purchasing power of exports, and the volume of exports, circa…
	The ratio of exports to GDP
	The purchasing power of exports
	The volume of exports
APPENDIX 3 Gross domestic product per head, 1913, 1928, 1980, and 2000
	Argentina
	Bolivia
	Brazil
	Chile
	Colombia
	Cuba
	Dominican Republic
	Ecuador
	Haiti
	Mexico
	Panama
	Paraguay
	Peru
	Puerto Rico
	Uruguay
	Venezuela
Bibliography
Index