Larry Sawers

The Other Argentina

The Interior And National Development

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Produktbeschreibung

This book attempts to relate the Argentina's economic failure to the backwardness of the interior and reviews the debate over the country's economic stagnation. It shows how the lack of resources and the inequality in their distribution produces obstacles to the economic development of the interior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780813335483
• ISBN-10: 0813335485
• Artikelnr.: 22276254

Autorenporträt

Larry Sawers is professor and chair of the Department of Economics at the American University in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
The Forgotten Interior
The Interior and the Argentine Nation
A History of the Great Divide
Understanding Argentina's Stagnation
The Economies of the Interior
The Northwest
Cuyo
The Northeast
Patagonia
The Economic and Political Backwardness of the Interior
The Economics of Backwardness
The Politics of Backwardness
The Backward Interior and the Argentine Nation
Prologue to Part Four
The Political Costs of the Interior's Backwardness
The Fiscal Cost of the Interior's Backwardness
Summary and Conclusions
The Other Argentina
Appendix The Extent of Poverty in the Interior