Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-l7hp2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-02T20:55:10.724Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Economic Development and Social Equity: A Latin American Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Oscar Altimir
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Although the different phases of each country's development are far from being synchronous, in general Latin America's growth in the postwar period began to change pace and pattern around the mid- 1960s, then again following the oil crisis of 1973, which ushered in a slowdown of the world economy, only to plunge into crisis anew early in the 1980s.

As discussed in Altimir (1994a), during the 1950s and 1960s, growth — i.e., at substantial rates, greater than 2%per capita — was either unequal (as in Brazil or Chile in the 1960s) or else involved an increase in inequality in the 1950s that was followed by a phase of inequality that remained essentially unchanged throughout the 1960s (as in Argentina, Colombia or Mexico).

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 38 , Issue 2-3: Special Double Issue: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America , Fall 1996 , pp. 47 - 71
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1996

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Altimir, O. (1994a) “Cambios de la desigualdad y la pobreza en la América Latina.” El Trimestre Económico No. 241 [México] LXI, 1 (enero-marzo).Google Scholar
Altimir, O. (1994b) Income distribution and poverty through crisis and adjustment, CEPAL Review 52 (April).Google Scholar
Birdsall, N., Ross, D. and Sabot, R. (1995) “Inequality and growth reconsidered: lessons from East Asia.” The World Bank Economic Review 9, 3 (September).Google Scholar
Borensztein, E., Kahn, M., Reinhart, C. and Whickham, P. (1994) The behavior of non-oil commodity prices (Occasional Paper 112, August). Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.Google Scholar
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (1990) Changing production patterns with social equity (LC/G. 1601-P; March; UN publication: Sales E.90.II.G.6). Santiago de Chile: United Nations, ECLAC.Google Scholar
Krugman, P. (1994) “Competitiveness: A dangerous obsession.” Foreign Affairs 73, 2 (March/April): 28–44.Google Scholar
Schiefelbein, E. (1995) “La reforma educativa en América Latina y el Caribe: un programa de acción.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the World Bank on “Development in Latin America and the Caribbean;” Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); 12-13 June 1995.Google Scholar