Economic Development of Latin America: Historical Background and Contemporary Problems Book

Tables; Preface to second edition; Preface to first edition; Abbreviations; Maps;

Part I. From the Conquest to the Formation of Nation-States:

1. Introduction: the land and the people;
2. Economic and social background of the territorial occupation;
3. First half of the nineteenth century;

Part II. Entry into the System of International Division of Labour:
4. The transformation of international trade in the second half of the nineteenth century and its impact on Latin America;
5. Reorientation of the international economy in the present century;
6. Some indicators of the degree of development reached in Latin America;

Part III. The Traditional Structural Pattern:
7. Characteristics of agrarian structures;
8. Distribution and utilisation of the social income;
9. Monetary and foreign exchange systems;

Part IV. Characteristics of the Industrialisation Process:
10. The industrialisation process (i);
11. The industrialisation process (ii);
12. Imbalances created by import-substituting industrialisation: structural inflation;

Part V. Reorientation of Development in the Recent Period:
13. Evolution of macroeconomic structures;
14. Agricultural sector;
15. Industrial sector;
16. Inadequate growth and the reorientation of development;

Part VI. International Relations:
17. Traditional forms of external dependence;
18. New forms of external dependence;
19. Towards the restructuring of the international economy;

Part VII. Intra-Regional Relations:
20. Integration process in Central America;
21. LAFTA and the Andean group;

Part VIII. StructuralReconstruction Policies:
22. Economic planning experiments;
23. Agrarian reforms;
24. Economic aspects of the Cuban Revolution;
25. Present problems and prospects; Bibliography; Index.