Economic Development in Latin America Essay in Honor of Werner Baer

, by Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Facchini, Giovanni; Hewings, Geoffrey J. D.

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ISBN: 9780230223813 | 0230223818
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Copyright: 3/15/2010

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

Hadi Salehi Esfahani is Professor of Economics at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Giovanni Facchini is Professor of Economics at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Geoffrey Hewings is Director of the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
Preface: A Tribute to Werner Baer	p. xi
List of Contributors	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
The Role of Institutions
International Cooperation and Global Justice	p. 9
Latin America, UNCTAD, and the Postwar Trading System	p. 22
Import Substitution Industrialization in Latin America: Experience and Lessons for the Future	p. 34
With or without the IMF? Economic Recovery after Devaluation in Argentina and Brazil	p. 43
The Decision to Become Informal Self-Employed in Latin America	p. 62
Institutions and Economic Growth in the Atlantic Periphery: The Efficiency of the Portuguese Machinery of Justice, 1870-1910	p. 73
An Evaluation of the Contractionary Devaluation Hypothesis	p. 102
Income Distribution and Economic Development
Interpreting Brazilian Income Distribution Trends	p. 121
The Evolution of Agriculture and Land Reform in Brazil, 1960-2006	p. 133
Human Capital and Income Concentration in Brazil	p. 163
Regional Aspects of Economic Development
Structural Analysis of Employment in the Brazilian Economy: 1996 and 2002 Compared	p. 179
Trade Liberalization, Space, and Regional Development	p. 201
Regional and Demographic Determinants of Poverty in Brazil	p. 217
New Challenges
The Political Economy of the New Left in Latin America: Does the Bell Toll for Neoliberalism?	p. 233
Deficit Targeting: An Incentive Mechanism for Subnational Fiscal Deficit Reduction in Brazil	p. 254
Is there any Difference in Well-being between American and Brazilian College Students?	p. 273
A Retrospective on Werner Baer
Economics the Werner Baer Way	p. 289
Making a Great Difference: The Influence of Professor Werner Baer on the Economic Literature in Brazil, and on Brazil	p. 295
Index	p. 307
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