The China Triangle: Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus

by Kevin P Gallagher

Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world. As it grew into a major industrial power, it demanded enormous amounts of steel for new factories and cities, copper for electronic wires, petroleum for cars and manufacturing plants, and soybeans and cattle to feed its workers. By the 1990s, many Latin American countries were riding China's coattails and beginning to prosper from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190246731
• ISBN13: 9780190246730
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"