Latin America's Economy: Diversity, Trends, and Conflicts

by Eliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege

Book Overview

This important new text provides a clear, comprehensive, and accessible overview of major economic issues facing Latin America today, including balance of payments problems, inflation, stabilization, poverty, inequality, and land reform. It captures trends and common issues and at the same time illustrates the diversity of national experiences.

Each chapter centers around an economic problem from such new topics as debt to more enduring issues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262531259
• ISBN13: 9780262531252
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Latin America's Economy

This book is probably one of the most widely used for classes on Latin American Economic Development. It is well-structured and combines a revision of the main historic events that had impacted the economic development of Latin America with alternative theoretical explanations. It gives special priority to topics such as inflation, debt crisis and poverty and inequality that are crucial for the understanding of the Latin American economic evolution. Moreover, the text does not forget about the role played by the interaction between politics and economics. In this sense, the chapter on populism is remarkable. However, many of the statistical tables are outdated and in my modest opinion, a future revision of the book should include a chapter on the neoliberal reforms and their consequences.