Trade, Industrialization, and Integration in Twentieth-Century Central America

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• CONTENTS v
• Illustrations vii
• PREFACE xi
• PART I INTRODUCTION 1
• 1: CENTRAL AMERICA: THE CHALLENGES OF TRADE, INDUSTRIALIZATION, and INTEGRATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 3
• 2: A MACROECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF CENTRAL AMERICA 15
• SUMMARY AND OVERVIEW 36
• NOTE 36
• PART II TRADE IN CENTRAL AMERICA 39
• 3: THE STRUCTURE OF TRADE IN CENTRAL AMERICA 41
• SUMMARY 58
• NOTES 59
• REFERENCES 59
• 4: IDUSTRIALIZATION and TRADE IN CENTRAL AMERICA 61
• NOTES 85
• REFERENCES 85
• 5: MEXICO AS A POTENTIAL MARKET FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN and CARIBBEAN PRODUCTS 87
• NOTES 98
• PART III INDUSTRIALIZATION AND INTEGRATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA 101
• 6: THE INTENSITY OF CENTRAL AMERICAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION 103
• CONCLUSIONS 111
• NOTES 113
• NOTES 114
• 7: ASSEMBLY OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL AMERICA 117
• REFERENCES 149
• 8: PANAMA: ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ALTERNATIVES, IMPLICATIONS, and PERSPECTIVES 153
• NOTES 178
• REFERENCES 179
• 9: THE CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET: AN ANALYSIS Of WELFARE EFFECTS FROM 1970 TO 1984 183
• CONCLUSION 202
• NOTES 203
• NOTES 204
• PART IV SPECIAL ISSUES 207
• 10: ECONOMIC PROSPECTS FOR CENTRAL AMERICA IN THE DECADE OF THE 1990S 209
• NOTES 220
• REFFERENCES 220
• 11: A REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICIES and STRATEGIES FOR TRADE and INDUSTRIALIZATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA 223
• CONCLUSION: WHERE TO FROM HERE? 232
• REFERENCES 235
• 12: THE DILEMMA OF EXPORT RIVIVAL: NICARAGUAN AGRICULTURE AT A TURNING POINT 237
• NOTES 251
• REFERENCES 251
• 13: CHALLENGES and PROSPECTS FOR CENTRAL AMERICA IN A GLOBAL TRADE CONTEXT 253
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 271
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 277
• INDEX 279
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 289

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