The Economies of Latin America: New Cliometric Data

1. Expectations, institutions and economic performance : Latin America and the Western European periphery during the twentieth century / Albert Carreras -- 2. On the accuracy of Latin American trade statistics : a non-parametric test for 1925 / Maria del Mar Rubio and Mauricio Folchi -- 3. Latin America and its main trade partners, 1860-1930 : did the First World War affect geographical patterns? / Marc Badia-Miro and Anna Carreras-Marin -- 4. The structure of Latin American investment in equipment goods during the mature period of the first globalization / Xavier Tafunell -- 5. Factorial distribution of income in Latin America, 1950-2000 : new series from the national account data / Vicente Neira Barria -- 6. The influence of the First World War on the economies of Central America, 1900-29 : an analysis from a foreign trade perspective / Frank Notten -- 7. Economic modernization in adverse institutional environments : the cases of Cuba and Chile / Cesar Yanez -- 8. Capital goods imports, machinery investment and economic development in the long run : the case of Chile / Andre A. Hofman and Cristian Ducoing -- 9. The sugar industry, the forests and the Cuban energy transition, from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century / Jose Jofre Gonzalez -- 10. Empirical debate on terms of trade and the double factorial terms of trade in Colombia, 1975-2006 / Santiago Colmenares -- 11. Public revenues in Bolivia, 1900-31 / Jose Alejandro Peres Cajias -- 12. The consumption of durable goods in Latin America, 1890-1913 : analysis and estimation of a demand function / Carolina Roman Ramos.

The economic backwardness of Latin America and the Caribbean has long been discussed, but seldom been the subject of such a wide-ranging quantitative study. The twelve essays in this collection present a twenty-first-century analysis of a long-term issue, providing extensive geographical coverage and allowing reinterpretations of the past