Oxford, NY, Estados Unidos : Oxford University Press, 2008.

1 recurso en línea (xiv, 327 p.)

Contents; 1. Introduction; Part I: The Historical Context; 2. Two Centuries of South American Reflections on the Development Gap between the United States and Latin America; 3. Looking at Them: A Mexican Perspective on the Gap with the United States; 4. Explaining Latin America’s Lagging Development in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Growth Strategies, Inequality, and Economic Crises; Part II: The Politics of Underdevelopment in Latin America; 5. Does Politics Explain the Economic Gap between the United States and Latin America?; 6. The Role of High-Stakes Politics in Latin America’s Development Gap; Part III: Institutional Factors in Latin America’s Development; 7. The Latin American Equilibrium; 8. Do Defective Institutions Explain the Development Gap between the United States and Latin America?; 9. Why Institutions Matter: Fiscal Citizenship in Argentina and the United States; 10. Conclusion; Contributors; Index. --

Tomado de EBL : In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away, and today the gap is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied policymakers and scholars for decades, and the debate remains intense. In Falling Behind, Francis Fukuyama, acclaimed author of The End of History and America at the Crossroads, gathers together some of the world's leading scholars on the subject to explain the nature of the gap and how it came to be. Tracing the histories of development over the past four hundred years and focusing in particular on the policies of the last fifty years, the contributors conclude that while many factors are important, economic policies and weak institutions are at the root of the divide. Interestingly, while the gap is deeply rooted in history, they show that there have been times when it narrowed as a consequence of policy choices in nations such as Chile, Mexico, and Brazil, and that there has been genuine institutional reform across the region. Bringing to light these policy success stories, Fukuyama and the contributors lay out a path for Latin American nations so that they can improve their prospects for economic growth and stable political development.

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