The Latin American Development Debate: Neostructuralism, Neomonetarism, and Adjustment Processes

ISBN-13: 9780367308919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Patricio Meller

Opis

This book reexamines strategies of Latin American development—structuralism versus monetarism, liberalism versus statism, growth versus equity—in light of new theoretical knowledge and recent economic events, reviewing the adjustment processes applied in various countries.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Latin American Economic Development and the International Environment -- From Structuralism to Neostructuralism: The Search for a Heterodox Paradigm -- Monetarism and Structuralism: Some Macroeconomic Lessons -- Review of the Debate over the Origins of Latin American Industrialization and Its Ideological Context -- Deindustrialization and Industrial Restructuring in Latin America: The Examples of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile -- Financial Strategies in Latin America: The Southern Cone Experience -- Structural Adjustment Reforms and the External Debt Crisis in Latin America -- IMF and World Bank Roles in the Latin American Foreign Debt Problem

O autorze

Patricio Meller