Prosperity's Promise
Subtitle: The Amazon Rubber Boom and Distorted Economic Development (Dellplain Latin American Studies)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780813389967
Subjects: Agriculture & related industries; Development economics; Economic geography; Manufacturing industries; Industries - General; Economics Of Natural Resources (General); Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Amazon river; International - Economics; Amazon River Region; History; Rubber industry and trade
Description: This study provides the first integrative economic analysis of one of Latin America's most explosive natural resource export booms. The authors combine economic and geographical perspectives to build persuasive theoretical and empirical arguments linking micro- and macroeconomic processes and to explain the key features and outcomes of the boom. They conclude by laying out the essential lessons learned for assessing the role of resource extraction in developing regional economies.