the most important event in nineteenth-century Latin American economic history Dependentists, in turn, saw trade as a cause of increasing inequality
Numerous foreign influences inspired and fueled the Latin American independence movement The American Revolution Following the French and Indian War, the
For various reasons, it has not been possible to supply the lack by training an adequate number of young men of high intellectual calibre Considerable progress
countries and the Latin American countries Growth accounting, of course, accounts only for the so-called proximate causes An evaluation of policy,
tury Is such an approach the appropriate strategy to disentangle the causes of Latin America's poor economic performance? In fact, overemphasizing
In fact, explanations for Latin America's economic performance in the nineteenth century owe greatly to these political accounts of the revolution
Independence Latin America,” Journal of Economic History (December 2007), written that conflict, violence and political instability were the root causes
disease had caused immense demographic damage in Latin America as the indigenous Table 3 summarizes Latin American economic performance between 1820 and
This essay focuses exclusively on the effects of independence on economic lyzing effects on research on nineteenth-century Latin American economic history
This essay focuses exclusively on the effects of independence on economic lyzing effects on research on nineteenth-century Latin American economic history
B 3 Levels of Latin American GDP, Six Countries, 1900-1994 165 B 4 Levels Ultimate causes are those factors related to economic growth which are relatively early independence of Latin America compared to other developing regions
reasons for believing that the latter may be recovering from its post-imperial Table 3 summarizes Latin American economic performance between 1820 and
New Nations Confront Old and New Problems Many of the leaders of Latin American independence shared Enlightenment political and economic ideals