The Elusive Quest for Growth in Argentina

by Daniel Chudnovsky and Andrés López

Despite its unusually rich availability of natural resources and ample base of human capital, in the last forty years Argentina suffered a poor growth performance in any cross-country comparison. Chudnovsky and L pez's analysis includes two episodes of growth in 1964-74 and in 1991-98 that proved to be finally unsustainable, as well as the 2001 crisis, the most severe in the country's history. Since both growth episodes took place under quite different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403977895
• ISBN13: 9781403977892
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.5"