Economic development in Latin America : essay in honor of Werner Baer / edited by Hadi Esfahani, Giovanni Facchini, and Geoffrey J.D. Hewings. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - xxii, 309 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Does the bell toll for Neoliberalism in Latin America?; AmannThe timing of self employment decisions; Aroca, M. CunninghamMaking a great difference; Azzoni An evaluation of the contractionary devaluation hypothesis; Bebczuk, G. PanizzaRevisiting import substitution industrialization; BragaDeficit targeting; Bugarin and PiresHuman capital and income concentration in Brazil; BugarinHappiness among American and Brazilian College Students; Cavalcanti, Guimaraes and NogueiraReconciliing growth with equity in the income distribution; CoesPerformance of privatised enterprises in developing countries; CookWith or without the IMF?; Gallo Structural analysis of employment in the Brazilian Economy; Guilhoto, Ichihara and AmorinCGE models, trade liberalization and growth: Ten lessons from the Brazilian experience; HaddadLatin America, UNCTAD and the postwar trading system; LoveAgricultural and agrarian development in Brazil over the last six decades; MuellerInstitutions and economic growth in the periphery; ReisRegional and demographic determinants of poverty in Brazil; Souza, Azzoni and NogueiraInternational cooperation and global justice; StreetenEconomics the Werner Baer Way; L. Samuelson Does the bell toll for Neoliberalism in Latin America?; AmannThe timing of self employment decisions; Aroca, M. CunninghamMaking a great difference; Azzoni An evaluation of the contractionary devaluation hypothesis; Bebczuk, G. PanizzaRevisiting import substitution industrialization; BragaDeficit targeting; Bugarin and PiresHuman capital and income concentration in Brazil; BugarinHappiness among American and Brazilian College Students; Cavalcanti, Guimaraes and NogueiraReconciliing growth with equity in the income distribution; CoesPerformance of privatised enterprises in developing countries; CookWith or without the IMF?; Gallo Structural analysis of employment in the Brazilian Economy; Guilhoto, Ichihara and AmorinCGE models, trade liberalization and growth: Ten lessons from the Brazilian experience; HaddadLatin America, UNCTAD and the postwar trading system; LoveAgricultural and agrarian development in Brazil over the last six decades; MuellerInstitutions and economic growth in the periphery; ReisRegional and demographic determinants of poverty in Brazil; Souza, Azzoni and NogueiraInternational cooperation and global justice; StreetenEconomics the Werner Baer Way; L. Samuelson.

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

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Latin America--Economic policy--Case studies.

HC125 / .E369 2010

338.98