Falling behind
Subtitle: explaining the development gap between Latin America and the United States
By: edited by Francis Fukuyama.
Contributors: Fukuyama, Francis.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780195368826
Subjects: Latin America -- Foreign economic relations -- United States -- Congresses; United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Latin America -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Work titles: Brecha entre América Latina y Estados Unidos. English.
Notes: Papers presented at an international seminar held in Buenos Aires, November 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Francis Fukuyama; title: The historical context; title: Two centuries of South American reflections on the development gap between the United States and Latin America / Tulio Halperin Donghi; title: Looking at them: a Mexican perspective on the gap with the United States /  Enrique Krauze; title: Explaining Latin America's lagging development in the second half of the twentieth century: growth strategies, inequality, and economic crises / Jorge I. Domínguez; title: The politics of underdevelopment in Latin America; title: Does politics explain the economic gap between the United States and Latin America? / Adam Przeworski with Carolina Curvale; title: The role of high stakes politics in Latin America's development gap / Riordan Roett and Francisco E. González; title: Institutional factors in Latin America's development; title: The Latin American equilibrium / James A. Robinson; title: Do defective institutions explain the development gap between the United States and Latin America? / Francis Fukuyama; title: Why institutions matter: fiscal citizenship in Argentina and the United States / Natalio R. Botana; title: Conclusion / Francis Fukuyama.