Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Economies of Latin America -- Chapter 2 A Brief Economic History -- Chapter 3 What is “Wrong”: The Usual List of Suspects -- Chapter 4 Argentina and Brazil -- Chapter 5 Chile, Colombia, Peru, and...

While Latin America accounts for approximately 7 percent of the world economy, easily accessible information on the economies of the region is not always easy to find. The existing literature on Latin American economics usually assumes some previous familiarity with the region and is focused on...

"Miguel A. Centeno, Agustin E. Ferraro, Vivekananda Nemana More than 3 decades ago, Albert Hirschman wondered why not enough attention had been paid to Latin America's post-war economic boom, certainly not while it happened. Only in retrospect, from the "lost decade" of the 1980s, did the...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- PART I THE SETTING -- I. Evolution of Economic Systems -- II. Population, Income, and the Allocation of Productive Effort -- PART II ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION -- III. Agriculture and Land Tenure -- IV. The Mining Industry -- V. Transportation -- VI....

Central America is exposed to a variety of natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and floods. The region, located on four connected tectonic plates with 24 active volcanoes and in the path of hurricanes, has experienced 348 major disasters from 1981 to 2010,...

Central America is exposed to a variety of natural hazards such as earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslides, and floods. This study considers Central America as a group of six countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, on the basis of their geographical,...