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  • Latin American Political Economy

    Financial Crisis And Political Change

    This book considers the historical and contemporary determinants of the financial crisis facing Latin America from a political economy perspective and compares the effects of and responses to the crisis in a number of countries. It discusses the internal policy errors that led to financial blow-ups. ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic

    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    Over the past several decades, the Dominican Republic hasexperienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramaticsocioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlynoffers a new explanation for the country’s political evolution,based on a broad comparative perspective.Hartlyn rejects cultural explanations unduly focused onlegacies from the Spanish colonial era and ... Read more

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  • The United States and Latin America in the 1990s

    Beyond the Cold War

    “A comprehensive examination of both unresolved tensions in inter-American relations and the specific problems facing U.S. and Latin American policymakers in the 1990s.” — American Political Science Review“These well-integrated essays analyze the key issues in contemporary inter-American relations very clearly. The authors address their themes with subtlety and insight, in this first overall ... Read more

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  • Silent Revolution

    The Rise And Crisis Of Market Economics In Latin America- 2nd Edition

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  • Job Creation In Latin America And The Caribbean: Recent Trends And Policy Challenges

    This book analyzes recent labor market trends in Latin American countries and the factors that underlie the failure to create more and more productive and rewarding jobs, a failure with substantial political and social costs. The authors analyze how growth and job creation in the region's economies compare with other emerging countries, the impact of job creation and destruction on productivity ... Read more

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  • The Economic History of Latin America since Independence

    Series Book 98 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    This study, now in a revised and updated third edition, covers the economic history of Latin America from independence in the 1820s to the present. It stresses the differences between Latin American countries while recognizing the external influences to which the whole region has been subject. Victor Bulmer-Thomas notes the failure of the region to close the gap in living standards between it and ... Read more

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  • Brazil

    Reversal of Fortune

    Once deemed a “dysfunctional” democracy with a “feckless” set of political institutions and a “drunk” economy, today’s Brazil has undergone a complete reversal of fortune. Now in its third decade of democracy, the economy is blossoming and large-scale development projects are underway, including the exploitation of massive, off-shore oil reserves, a nationwide effort to modernize infrastructure, ... Read more

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  • The State Of State Reform In Latin America

    by Lora Eduardo ...
    Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or "second generation" reforms. The State of State Reform in Latin America reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development

    From neoliberalism to resource nationalism

    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and ... Read more

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  • The New Brazil

    by Riordan Roett ...
    The New Brazil tells the story of South America's largest country as it evolved from a remote Portuguese colony into a regional leader; a respected representative for the developing world; and, increasingly, an important partner for the United States and the European Union.In this engaging book, Riordan Roett traces the long road Brazil has traveled to reach its present status, examining the many ... Read more

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  • The China Triangle

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

    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD