BOOKS
Argentina 1910-2010. Balance del siglo.
Edited by Robert Russell and published by Taurus, is one of the two volumes about Argentina that correspond to the Grupo Vidanta Foundation Project " The Bicentennial: Lessons and opportunities, 1910-2010 " The book brings together five essays by: Carlos Altamirano, Pablo Gerchunoff, Luis Alberto Romero, Roberto Russell and Juan Carlos Torre. The work drew a critical synthesis of the century, with their dramas, accomplishments, hopes and disappointments.
Argentina 2010. Entre la frustración y la esperanza.
Edited by Natalio Botana and published by Taurus, the book brings together a collection of essays written by experts and personalities of first level: Natalio Botana, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Roberto Cortés Conde, Karina Galperín, Osvaldo Guariglia, Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry, Manuel Mora y Araujo, Carlos Pérez Llana and Julio Maria Sanguinetti.
La brecha entre América Latina y Estados Unidos. Determinantes políticos e institucionales del desarrollo económico.
Grupo Vidanta Foundation’s first book is a compilation of the revised versions of the papers presented during the International Seminar “Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States” held in Buenos Aires on November 10 and 11, 2005. Edited by Professor Francis Fukuyama, the book was published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in December 2006.
América Latina:¿integración o fragmentación?
Grupo Vidanta Foundation’s second book was edited by Ricardo Lagos and includes the thoughts of prominent international analysts and scholars on Latin American international relations. The book was published by Editorial Edhasa in August 2008 (Buenos Aires)
Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap between the United States and Latin America.
In 2008, Oxford University Press published the English version of the book compiled by Francis Fukuyama La brecha entre América Latina y Estados Unidos: Determinantes políticos e institucionales del desarrollo económico. This book includes the revised versions of the papers presented during the international seminar sponsored by the Grupo Vidanta Foundation held in Buenos Aires in November 2005.
KEYNOTES ADDRESSES
The Development Gap between Latin America and the United States: Conclusions
By Francis Fukuyama
This dissertation summarizes the main conclusions and findings of the essays presented during the 2005 International Seminar held in Buenos Aires.
Latin America: Unity and Dispersion.
By Mario Vargas Llosa
In his address, Vargas Llosa analyzes one of the most surprising and possibly least appreciated forms of Latin American fracture: the abysmal contradiction that exists between Latin America’s political and social reality and its literary and artistic production.
After the XXth Century: A World in Transition.
By Eric Hobsbawm
This paper reflects the thoughts of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the 20th century’s major historians, on the changes and possible directions of the world in the new century. The author stresses the expansion and deepening of globalization in all fields, except for political power and culture, and the shift of the center of gravity of the world from North America and the European Union to Asia, although this concentration of power and wealth and, possibly, culture, has yet to be established.
Latin American Iintegration or Fragmentation: Perspectives.
By Ricardo Lagos
Ricardo Lagos invites us to ponder on integration/fragmentation with a view to the 21st century. After pointing out that this dilemma stems from within our own countries and making a brief review of the process of regional integration, he presents a stimulating decalogue for an “integrated integrationist approach.”
Explaining Latin America’s Lagging Development in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Growth Strategies, Inequality and Economic Crisis.
By Jorge I. Domínguez
This essay analyzes the gap, with stress on, among others, the following arguments: negligence in the field of economic inequality, insufficient investment in human resources, institutional instability and legal insecurity.
Why Institutions Matter: Fiscal Citizenship in Argentina and the United States.
By Natalio R. Botana
This paper refers to the political and economic aspects of fiscal citizenship. The author considers the fact that “the fiscal institutions are the backbone of the material support for rights.”
The Latin American Equilibrium
By James Robinson
The author holds that Latin American institutions have been determining factors in the creation of the gap. He also argues that “if what sustains a series of institutions is a structure of political power, political institutions and incentives, such structures and incentives can be modified.”
Does Politics Explain the Economic Gap between the United States and Latin America?
By Adam Przeworski y Carolina Curvale
The article explains how the elite power and economic inequality have favored sustained yet unstable, and hence inefficient, growth in Latin America.
Two Centuries of South American Reflections on the Development Gap between Latin America and the United States
By Tulio Halperín Donghi
According to the author, the gap has been tackled “from very different standpoints by the United States and Latin America, since the earliest days of their coexistence almost two centuries ago.”
The Latin American Gap
By Julio Maria Sanguinetti
This paper analyzes the obstacles Latin America faces to narrow the gap in economic development with the developed countries. In spite of the obstacles, he concludes that we have “a duty of optimism” and that the gap “can be narrowed.”
La Oficina de la CEPAL en Buenos Aires publicó el libro "Crisis, recuperación y nuevos dilemas. La economía argentina 2002-2007" (Crisis, recovery and new dilemmas. The Argentine economy 2002-2007), que constituirá uno de los marcos de referencia del proyecto "Reconsideraciones sobre pobreza y desigualdad: factores internos y externos del desarrollo". El libro fue compilado por Bernardo Kosacoff.
Revelaciones. Las artes en América Latina 1492-1820
The catalogue: Revelaciones. Las artes en América Latina 1492-1820 (Revelations. Latin American Art 1492-1820), published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica, includes a selection of the major pictorial works produced in Latin America between 1492 and 1820. Revelaciones is a travelling collection that has been shown in several countries in the Americas and Europe. In Mexico it was exhibited in the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso from February 20 to June 24, 2007. The Grupo Vidanta Foundation invited Mario Vargas Llosa to write the introduction to the catalogue.
