The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics (Oxford Handbooks) - Image 1

Price loading...

Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics (Oxford Handbooks)

Name: The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics (Oxford Handbooks)
Brand: Oxford University Press

Economic Conditions

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Latin America has been central to the main debates on development economics, ranging from the relationships between income inequality and economic growth, and the importance of geography versus institutions in development, to debates on the effects of trade, trade openness and protection on growth and income distribution. Despite increasing interest in the region there are few English language books on Latin American economics. This Handbook, organized into five parts, aims to fill this significant gap. Part I looks at long-term issues, including the institutional roots of Latin America's underdevelopment, the political economy of policy making, the rise, decline and re-emergence of alternative paradigms, and the environmental sustainability of the development pattern. Part II considers macroeconomic topics, including the management of capital account booms and busts, the evolution and performance of exchange rate regimes, the advances and challenges of monetary policies and financial development, and the major fiscal policy issues confronting the region, including a comparison of Latin American fiscal accounts with those of the OECD. Part III analyzes the region's economies in global context, particularly the role of Latin America in the world trade system and the effects of dependence on natural resources (characteristic of many countries of the region) on growth and human development. It reviews the trends of foreign direct investment, the opportunities and challenges raised by the emergence of China as buyer of the region's commodities and competitor in the world market, and the transformation of the Latin America from a region of immigration to one of massive emigration. Part IV deals with matters of productive development. At the aggregate level it analyzes issues of technological catching up and divergence as well as different perspectives on the poor productivity and growth performance of the region during recent decades. At the sectoral level, it looks at agricultural policies and performance, the problems and prospects of the energy sector, and the effects on growth of lagging infrastructure development. Part V looks at the social dimensions of development; it analyzes the evolution of income inequality, poverty, and economic insecurity in the region, the evolution of labor markets and the performance of the educational sector, as well as the evolution of social assistance programs and social security reforms in the region. The contributors are leading researchers that belong to different schools of economic thought and most come from countries throughout Latin America, representing a range of views and recognising the diversity of the region. This Handbook is a significant contribution to the field, and will be of interest to academics, graduate students and policy makers interested in economics, political economy, and public policy in Latin America and other developing economies.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 019957104X
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Economics > Economic Conditions
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 July 2011
Listed Since: 03 November 2010

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics (Oxford Handbooks)

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Innovation, Competitiveness, and Development in Latin America: Lessons from the Past and Perspectives for the Future

Latin American Economics (Critical Concepts in Economics)

Handbook on Trade and Development

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development (Routledge International Handbooks)

Economic Doctrines in Latin America: Origins, Embedding and Evolution

Sino-Latin American Economic Relations (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

The Palgrave Handbook of Development Economics: Critical Reflections on Globalisation and Development

The Transformation of Latin America: Economic Development in the Early 1990s

Routledge Latin American Economic History - Development Book

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History

Financialisation in Latin America: Challenges of the Export-Led Growth Model (Routledge Critical Studies in Finance and Stability)

Time and Space: Latin American Regional Development in Historical Perspective (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)

Time and Space: Latin American Regional Development in Historical Perspective (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)

Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean (Latin American Development Forum)

An Introduction to Latin American Economics: Understanding Theory Through History

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development (Routledge International Handbooks)

Routledge Latin America: Its Problems and Its Promise - 5th Ed

Peripheral Visions of Economic Development: New frontiers in development economics and the history of economic thought (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development

Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development

Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History: 5 volumes: print and e-reference editions available

Edward Elgar - Economic Development of Latin America

The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (Oxford Handbooks)