The Elgar Companion to the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean

Edited by Francisco Rodríguez

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Companion examines why Latin America and the Caribbean have struggled to achieve sustained economic progress despite cycles of state-led development, market liberalization, and social policy experimentation. Through thematic analyses and detailed country studies, the contributors explore the structural constraints that have shaped the region’s trajectory. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Keywords: Latin America; Development; Social Inequality; Resources; Economic Growth; Institutional Weakness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035317196
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: why is Latin America not developed?

Francisco Rodríguez

Ch 2 Productivity growth in Latin America: 1820–2024

André Hofman and Mariana del Rio

Ch 3 Latin America's Gramscian moment: when the old fades (“Extractivism”), but the new fails to be born*

José Gabriel Palma

Ch 4 Continuismo v Rompismo: neocaudillismo and the electoral dominance of incumbents, ex-presidents, and newcomers in Latin America

Javier Corrales

Ch 5 Latin America in the neoliberal and postneoliberal eras

Gabriel Hetland

Ch 6 From parents to children: educational intergenerational mobility trends in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lucila Berniell, Cristian Bonavida and Dolores de la Mata

Ch 7 Central banks and monetary policy in historical perspective

Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Matías Vernengo

Ch 8 Gender inequality and development in Latin America

María Magdalena Camou and Silvana Maubrigades

Ch 9 Social movements and extractivist mining in Latin America and the Caribbean: reshaping pathways of development?

Leonith Hinojosa, Salvador Martí i Puig and Victor Tricot

Ch 10 The underground and criminal economy in Latin America

Julia Buxton

Ch 11 Argentina: a lost half century?

Ignacio Labaqui and Marcos Buscaglia

Ch 12 Bolivia's development: long view

Juan Antonio Morales

Ch 13 The Brazilian double disease

Otaviano Canuto

Ch 14 The Caribbean small economies in the world-economy: trade, economic performance, and innovation governance

Keith Nurse

Ch 15 Chile 1820–2020: a case of frustrated development?

Cristian Ducoing and Marc Badia-Miró

Ch 16 Colombian economic development since the early 20th century

José Antonio Ocampo and Carmen Astrid Romero

Ch 17 Costa Rica: the development of compromise

Ludovico Feoli

Ch 18 Cuba's failed reforms and new economic crisis

Pavel Vidal Alejandro

Ch 19 Assessing the Dominican Republic's economic development, 1970–2020

José R. Sánchez-Fung

Ch 20 Ecuador's truncated development trajectory: the rise and fall of developmentalism in the early 21st century

Isabel Estevez and Andrés Arauz

Ch 21 Capitalist modernization and growth in small countries: El Salvador's experience in the neoliberal era

Alexander Segovia

Ch 22 Haiti: a brief history of underdevelopment from colonial state to aid state

Jake Johnston

Ch 23 The struggle for sovereignty in Honduras

Lynn Holland

Ch 24 Why is Mexico not yet developed?

Gerardo Esquivel

Ch 25 Nicaragua: institutions-constrained growth

Alvaro López-Espinoza, Umanzor López-Baltodano and Mayerli Obando Chamorro

Ch 26 From stabilization to stagnation? Peru's economy toward the mid-21st century

Silvio Rendon

Ch 27 Is Puerto Rico the missing Latin American Tiger?

José Caraballo-Cueto

Ch 28 Suriname's economic development

Scott MacDonald

Ch 29 Uruguay: a tale of economic successes and failures

Arturo C. Porzecanski and Henry Willebald

Ch 30 The Venezuelan growth puzzle

Michael Penfold and Francisco Rodríguez

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