The economies of Argentina and Brazil
Subtitle: a comparative perspective
By: edited by Werner Baer, David Fleischer ; with the assistance of Lawrence De Geest
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham UK; Northampton MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9781849809962
Subjects: Economic conditions; Industrialization; Agriculture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Industrialization. Industrial development in Argentina / Bernardo Kosacoff; title: A bird's eye view of Brazilian industrialization / André Villela; title: Comments on part I / Joseph L. Love; title: Part II: Agriculture. The agricultural sector in Argentina / César Gappa and Andrés Gallo; title: The evolution of Brazilian agriculture from 1987 to 2009 / Carlos José Caetano Bacha; title: Comments on part II / Andrew W. Horowitz; title: Part III: The service sector : formal and informal. General facts about the service sector in Argentina / Ricardo Bebczuk; title: Size and importance of tertiary activities in Brazil / Carlos R. Azzoni and Joaquim J.M. Guilhoto; title: Comments on part III / Edmund Amann; title: Part IV: Income distribution. Anatomy of distributive changes in Argentina / Walter Sosa-Escudero and Sergio Petralia; title: The evolution of income distribution in Brazil / Rodolfo Hoffmann; title: Comments on part IV / Adolfo Figueroa; title: Part V: The state and the privatization experience. Argentina's gas and electricity reform / Esteban Manuel Greco, Diego Petrecolla and Carlos Adrián Romero; title: Two decades of privatization in Brazil / Armando Castelar Pinheiro; title: Comments on part V / Werner Baer; title: Part VI: Regional development. Regional development, regional disparities and public policies in Argentina : a long-run view / Alberto Porto and Atilio Elizagaray; title: The regional question in Brazil : nature, causes and policies / Alexandre Rands Barros; title: Comments on part VI / Geoffrey J.D. Hewings; title: Part VII: Inflation and stabilization policies. Inflation and macroeconomic policies in post-convertibility Argentina / Daniel Heymann, Adrián Ramos and Horacio Aguirre; title: Inflation and stabilization in Brazil / Manuel A.R. da Fonseca; title: Comments on part VII / Daniel G. Arce M.; title: Part VIII: Foreign trade and investment : past and present. Trade and foreign investment in Argentina : from the agro-export model to the present / Andrés López; title: Foreign trade and foreign investments : the Brazilian experience in the last two decades / Simão Davi Silber; title: Comments on part VIII / Donald N. Coes.