Author: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher: United Nations
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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This publication gives insight into the economic trends, the international economy and the role of exchange rate policy in the region. It also explores the economic developments by country. Included also is a statistical annex on diskette.
Author: Arturo Almandoz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317606515
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America’s twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relationship between industrialization and urbanization, modernization and development. This relationship began in the early twentieth century, when industrialization and urbanization became significant in the region, and ends at the beginning of the twenty-first century, when new tensions between liberal globalization and populist nationalism challenge development in the subcontinent, much of which is still poverty stricken. Latin America’s twentieth-century modernization and development are closely related to nineteenth-century ideals of progress and civilization, and for this reason Almandoz opens with a brief review of that legacy for the different countries that are the focus of his book – Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela – but with references to others. He then explores the regional distortions, which resulted from the interaction between industrialization and urbanization, and how the imbalance between urbanization and the productive system helps to explain why ‘take-off’ was not followed by the ‘drive to maturity’ in Latin American countries. He suggests that the close yet troublesome relationship with the United States, the recurrence of dictatorships and autocratic regimes, and Marxist influences in many domains, are all factors that explain Latin America’s stagnation and underdevelopment up to the so-called ‘lost decade’ of 1980s. He shows how Latin America’s fate changed in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, when neoliberal programmes, political compromise and constitutional reform dismantled the traditional model of the corporate state and centralized planning. He reveals how economic growth and social improvements have been attained by politically left-wing yet economically open-market countries while others have resumed populism and state intervention. All these trends make up the complex scenario for the new century – especially when considered against the background of vibrant metropolises that are the main actors in the book.
Author: Guillermo Acuña
Publisher: United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Territorial development in Latin America and the Caribbean is a process that calls for consensus-building and innovation in the fields of planning and land management. This publication points out that the potential spatial synergies of this highly urbanized continent can be used to convert its rich diversity into a resource that can help promote the future progress of its cities and territories. The study takes a multidimensional approach to the analysis of a variety of issues relating to the region's human settlements, including the urbanization process, social integration, economic progress, environmental sustainability and the building of citizenship.
Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Natural Resources and Energy Division
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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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SCOTT (copy 1) from the John Holmes Library collection.
Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher: Santiago, Chile : Economic Commission for Latin American [sic] and the Caribbean, United Nations ; New York, NY, USA : Can be ordered from United Nations Publications, Sales Section
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Publisher: New York : United Nations
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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UN publications sales no. E.88.II.G.4
Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America
Publisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher:
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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