Time and space Latin American regional development in historical perspective
This edited collection examines the evolution of regional inequality in Latin America in the long run. The authors support the hypothesis that the current regional disparities are principally the result of a long and complex process in which historical, geographical, economic, institutional, and pol...
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Cham, Switzerland
Palgrave Macmillan
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Palgrave studies in economic history
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This edited collection examines the evolution of regional inequality in Latin America in the long run. The authors support the hypothesis that the current regional disparities are principally the result of a long and complex process in which historical, geographical, economic, institutional, and political factors have all worked together. Lessons from the past can aid current debates on regional inequalities, territorial cohesion, and public policies in developing and also developed countries. 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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| Beschreibung: | "Particularly, most of the chapters that compose the volume have been presented and discussed at several seminars and academic conferences such as the following: Workshop: "Reconstrucción de PIBs regionales en América Latina, 1890-2010", Montevideo (2013); IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Historia Económica, Bogotá (2014); Foro Bienal Iberoamericano de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo, Montevideo (2015); Jean Monnet Action International Conference: "Studying GDP regional imbalances for a better long-term analysis of European integration", València (2016); European Social Science History Conference, València (2016); V Congreso Latinoamericano de Historia Económica, Sao Paulo (2016); International Conference in Regional Science, Sevilla (2018); International Economic History Association Congress, Boston (2018); International Conference in Regional Science, Castelló de la Plana (2019); VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Historia Económica, Santiago de Chile (2019). We want to thank all the participants for their insightful comments and advice in each of these meetings." - Seite v |
| Beschreibung: | xxiv, 407 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9783030475529 978-3-030-47552-9 |