Using a heterodox perspective, this book discusses the real possibilities of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico ever achieving economic development through industrialization. Through their discussion of the three most industrialized countries of Latin America, the contributors compare trajectories and...

The aim of this chapter is to identify how different productive policies in Latin America considered regional development and how they impacted on regional development. Different productive policy periods since 1890 are identified and examples on how they considered regional development are...

This paper evaluates the impact of Mexican trade and productive integration processes during the last 20 years. It finds evidence that growing per capita income in Mexico is directly related to its "trade opening", but is inversely related to the growth of its manufacturing export industry....

La tierra como botín / Alicia Puyana Mutis y Agostina Costantino -- Un golpe de timón para evitar la trampa del ingreso medio / Eva Paus -- Reestructuración de la producción global, la transformación de las finanzas y el desempeño de América Latina en la primera década del siglo XXI /...