Latin American Regional Development in Historical Perspective
E-Book, Englisch, 407 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
ISBN: 978-3-030-47553-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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In contrast with European countries, Latin American economies largely specialized in commodity exports, showed high levels of urbanization and high transports costs (both domestic and international). This new research provides a new perspective on the economic history of Latin American regions and offers new insights on how such forces interact in peripheral countries. In that sense, natural resources, differences in climatic conditions, industrial backwardness and low population density areas leads us to a new set of questions and tentative answers.
This book brings together a group of leading American and European economic historians in order to build a new set of data on historical regional GDPs for nine Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. This transnational perspective on Latin American economic development process is of interest to researchers, students and policy makers.
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Chapter 1: Introduction-Time, space and economics in the history of Latin America.- Chapter 2: Comparing different estimation methodologies of regional GDPs in Latin American countries.- Chapter 3:Productive and regional development policies in Latin America since 1890.- Chapter 4: Regional inequality in Latin American countries.- Chapter 4.1: Growth and convergence among Argentine provinces since 1895.- Chapter 4.2: From West to East: Bolivian Regional GDPs since the 1950s. A story of natural resources and infrastructure.- Chapter 4.3: The evolution of regional income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2015.- Chapter 4.4: Spatial inequality in Chile in the long run: a paradox of extreme concentration in absence of agglomeration forces (1890-2017).- Chapter 4.5: Regional Economic Inequality in Colombia, 1926-2018.- Chapter 4.6: Regional GDP in Mexico, 1895-2010.- Chapter 4.7: Peruvian regional inequality: 1847-2017.- Chapter 4.8:Patterns of regional income distribution in Uruguay (1872-2012): a story of agglomeration, natural resources and public policies.- Chapter 4.9: Was the oil sown evenly? Long-term patterns of regional inequality in Venezuela (1881-2011).- Chapter 5: Spatial Inequality in Latin America (1895-2010): convergence and clusters in a long-run approach.- Chapter 6: Regional inequality in Latin America: does it mirror the European pattern?.