Why Latin American nations fail : development strategies in the twenty-first century / edited by Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Matías Vernengo.

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ISBN:

9780520964525

Title:

Why Latin American nations fail : development strategies in the twenty-first century / edited by Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Matías Vernengo.

Author:

Pérez Caldentey, Esteban, editor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Introduction / Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez Caldentey -- Industrialization, trade, and economic growth / Carlos Aguiar de Medeiros -- Institutions, property rights, and why nations fail / Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Matías Vernengo -- With the best of intentions : types of development failure in Latin America / Miguel A. Centeno and Agustín E. Ferraro -- What makes an institution "developmental"? : a comparative analysis / Alejandro Portes and Jean C. Nava -- Latin America's mounting development challenges / José Antonio Ocampo -- Economic performance in Latin America in the 2000s : recession, recovery, and resilience? / Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Stefanie Garry -- South America after the commodity boom / Martín Abeles and Sebastián Valdecantos -- China in Latin America : social and environmental lessons for institutions in a commodity boom / Rebecca Ray and Kevin P. Gallagher -- Some concluding thoughts / Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Matías Vernengo.

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Subject Term:

Economic development -- Latin America -- History.

Sustainable development -- Latin America.

Développement économique -- Amérique latine -- Histoire.

Développement durable -- Amérique latine.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.

HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.

Economic development

Sustainable development

Geographic Term:

Latin America

Added Author:

Pérez Caldentey, Esteban,

Vernengo, Matias, 1968-

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?url=http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1583463

Publication Date:

2017

Publication Information:

Oakland, California :

University of California Press,

[2017]

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Summary

The question of development is a major topic in courses across the social sciences and history, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment in the region. With new ideas have come new strategies that by and large have failed to explain or reduce income disparity and relieve poverty in the region. Why Latin American Nations Fail brings together leading Latin Americanists from several disciplines to address the topic of how and why contemporary development strategies have failed to curb rampant poverty and underdevelopment throughout the region. Given the dramatic political turns in contemporary Latin America, this book offers a much-needed explanation and analysis of the factors that are key to making sense of development today.

Author Notes

Vernengo Matías :

Matías Vernengo is Professor of Economics at Bucknell University. He previously taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Kalamazoo College, and the University of Utah. He was Senior Research Manager at the Central Bank of Argentina and external consultant to several United Nations organizations.

Esteban Pérez Caldentey is Chief of the Financing for Development Unit at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile. He teaches a course on alternative economic models with applications to Latin America at the University of Santiago de Chile.