This contributed volume is the first book in English to offer a current and critical vision of regional problems and policies in the countries of Latin America. The book is in three main parts: a general overview of regional processes and trends in Latin America as a whole; country-level coverage...

The economic development of Argentina since the end of the nineteenth century is a story of growth, splendour and then stagnation and relative decline. In this chapter we present the first consistent formal quantitative analysis of the regional dimension of that story. By putting together...