Economic Development in Latin America: Essay in Honor of Werner Baer

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Overview

This book provides some important insights into some of the characteristics of development as experienced by a sub-set of Latin American countries.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780230223813
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 3/2/2010
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 5.70 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables vii

List of Figures ix

Preface: A Tribute to Werner Baer Larry Neal xi

List of Contributors xiv

1 Introduction Hadi Salehi Esfahani Giovanni Facchini Geoffrey J.D. Hewings 1

Part I The Role of Institutions

2 International Cooperation and Global Justice Paul Streeten 9

3 Latin America, UNCTAD, and the Postwar Trading System Joseph L. Love 22

4 Import Substitution Industrialization in Latin America: Experience and Lessons for the Future Carlos A. Primo Braga 34

5 With or without the IMF? Economic Recovery after Devaluation in Argentina and Brazil Andres Gallo 43

6 The Decision to Become Informal Self-Employed in Latin America Patricio Aroca Gonzalez Wendy Cunningham William F. Maloney 62

7 Institutions and Economic Growth in the Atlantic Periphery: The Efficiency of the Portuguese Machinery of Justice, 1870-1910 Jaime Reis 73

8 An Evaluation of the Contractionary Devaluation Hypothesis Ricardo Bebczuk Arturo Galindo Ugo Panizza 102

Part II Income Distribution and Economic Development

9 Interpreting Brazilian Income Distribution Trends Don Coes 121

10 The Evolution of Agriculture and Land Reform in Brazil, 1960-2006 Charles Mueller Bernardo Mueller 133

11 Human Capital and Income Concentration in Brazil Mirta N. S. Bugarin 163

Part III Regional Aspects of Economic Development

12 Structural Analysis of Employment in the Brazilian Economy: 1996 and 2002 Compared Joaquim J.M. Guilhoto Silvio Massaru Ichihara Márcio Guerra Amorim 179

13 Trade Liberalization, Space, and Regional Development Eduardo Haddad 201

14 Regional and Demographic Determinants of Poverty in Brazil Andre P. Souza Carlos R. Azzoni Veridiana A. Nogueira 217

Part IV New Challenges

15 The Political Economy of the New Left in Latin America: Does the Bell Toll for Neoliberalism? Edmund Amann 233

16 Deficit Targeting: An Incentive Mechanism for Subnational Fiscal Deficit Reduction in Brazil Mauricio S. Bugarin Mirta N.S. Bugarin Henrique A. Pires 254

17 Is there any Difference in Well-being between American and Brazilian College Students? Tiago V. de V. Cavalcanti Juliana Ferraz Guimarães José Ricardo Nogueira 273

Part V A Retrospective on Werner Baer

18 Economics the Werner Baer Way Larry Samuelson 289

19 Making a Great Difference: The Influence of Professor Werner Baer on the Economic Literature in Brazil, and on Brazil Carlos R. Azzoni 295

Index 307

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