This article analyses the costs in terms of income distribution of the crisis and adjustments of the 1980s, as well as the effects of the subsequent recovery and resumption of sustained growth patterns. This analysis is based on comparable pairs of estimates of income distribution and poverty prepared by ECLAC for the ten largest and predominantly urban countries of the region. The method of analysis consists, on the one hand, of comparing the changes in distribution and in the macroeconomic and labour market variables during similar macroeconomic phases in the course of the adjustment process…
This lecture discusses the features of the colonial situation in LatinAmerica that conditioned the region's economic and social performancein the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It deals in particular withArgentina, looking at the events following the First World War through tothe beginning of the Second World War. Those events were formative in theeducation and experience of Raúl Prebisch, who 30 years later would giveECLAC its fundamental characteristics. The lecture examines the ideas thatECLAC contributed to the debate on Latin American development and theevolution of the co…
Esta conferencia destaca rasgos de la situación colonial deAmérica Latina que condicionaron el desempeño económico y social dela región en el siglo XIX y principios del XX. Trata con particular detalleel caso argentino, encontrando en los sucesos posteriores a la primeraguerra mundial y de inicios de la segunda, antecedentes de la formacióny experiencia de Raúl Prebisch, quien 30 años después imprimiría a lacepal sus características fundamentales. Examina las ideas aportadaspor la cepal al debate sobre el desarrollo latinoamericano y la evoluciónde los países que aplicaron algunas de ellas; ta…
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