1st Edition
The Latin American Development Debate Neostructuralism, Neomonetarism, And Adjustment Processes
By Patricio Meller
Copyright 1991
220 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
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Routledge
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In the 1980s Latin America experienced its second worst economic crisis of the century; today the average per capita income is about 10 percent less than a decade ago. Because the crisis affected all Latin American countries regardless of their economic policies, the period has become known as "the lost decade in Latin America." In this book, eminent economists from the region reexamine strategies... Read more
Introduction -- Latin American Economic Development and the International Environment -- From Structuralism to Neostructuralism: The Search for a Heterodox Paradigm -- Monetarism and Structuralism: Some Macroeconomic Lessons -- Review of the Debate over the Origins of Latin American Industrialization and Its Ideological Context -- Deindustrialization and Industrial Restructuring in Latin America: The Examples of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile -- Financial Strategies in Latin America: The Southern Cone Experience -- Structural Adjustment Reforms and the External Debt Crisis in Latin America -- IMF and World Bank Roles in the Latin American Foreign Debt Problem
Biography
Patricio Meller
