Explaining the Development Gap between Latin America and the United States
How and when did the gap in economic development between Latin America and the United States occur? Why have our countries, as opposed to those of East Asia, been unable to narrow the gap? What should be done to close it? These and other questions were analyzed from historical, political and institutional perspectives by eminent Latin American and U.S. historians, political scientists and economists.
The papers were presented and debated at an international seminar held in Buenos Aires in November 2005, organized by Torcuato Di Tella University and the Grupo Vidanta Foundation.
The collection of revised versions of the papers was published in the book La brecha entre América Latina y Estados Unidos. Determinantes políticos e institucionales del desarrollo económico, edited by Francis Fukuyama and published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica in Buenos Aires in 2006.
An English version of the book was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
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