Economic development in Latin America: essay in honor of Werner Baer

This book addresses a diverse set of challenges facing Latin American economies. These range from the role of neo-liberal policies, deficit targeting, import substitution, role of institutions, trade and regional development and human capital and poverty. INDICE: Introduction; H.Esfahani, G.Facchini, L.Neal G.Hewings - PART I: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS - International Cooperation and Global Justice; P.Streeten - Latin America, UNCTAD, and the Postwar Trading System; J.Love - Import Substitution Industrialization in Latin America: Experience and Lessons for the Future; C.Braga - With or without the IMF? Economic Recovery after Devaluation in Argentina and Brazil; A.Gallo - The Decision to Become Informal Self-Employed in Latin America; P.Gonzalez, W.Cunningham W.Maloney - Institutions and Economic Growth in the Atlantic Periphery: The Efficiency of the Portuguese Machinery of Justice, 1870-1910 51; J.Reis - An Evaluation of the ContractionaryDevaluation Hypothesis; R.Bebczuk, A.Galindo U.Panizza - PART II: INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND EOCNOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Interpreting Brazilian Income DistributionTrends; D.Coes - The Evolution of Agriculture and Land Reform in Brazil, 1960b 2006; C.Mueller B.Mueller - Human Capital and Income Concentration in Brazil; M.Bugarin - PART III: REGIONAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - StructuralAnalysis of Employment in the Brazilian Economy: 1996 and 2002 Compared; J.Guilhoto, S.Ichihara& M.Amorim - Trade Liberalization, Space and Regional Development; E.Haddad - Regional and Demographic Determinants of Poverty in Brazil; A.Souza, C.Azzoni V.Nogueira - PART IV: NEW CHALLENGES - The Political Economyof the New Left in Latin America: Does the Bell Toll for Neo-Liberalism?; E.Amman - Deficit Targeting: an Incentive Mechanism for Subnational Fiscal Deficit Reduction in Brazil; M.S.Bugarin, M.N.S.Bugarin& H.Pires - Is there any Difference in Well-being between American and Brazilian College Students; T.Cavalcanti, J.F.Guimarães J.R.Nogueira - PART V: A RETROSPECTIVE ON WERNER BAER - Economics the Werner Baer Way; L.Samuelson - Making a Great Difference: the Influence of Professor Werner Baer on the Economic Literature in Brazil, and on Brazil; C.R.Azzoni

• ISBN: 978-0-230-22381-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés