Economic Development and Social Equity

A Latin American Perspective

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4547951
AutoresOscar Altimir (autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen38
Número2-3
Páginas47-71
Fecha de publicación1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/166360
OpenAlexW2783951750
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas4

Although the different phases of each country's development are far from being synchronous, in general Latin America's growth in the postwar period began to change pace and pattern around the mid- 1960s, then again following the oil crisis of 1973, which ushered in a slowdown of the world economy, only to plunge into crisis anew early in the 1980s.As discussed in Altimir (1994a), during the 1950s and 1960s, growth - i.e., at substantial rates, greater than 2%per capita - was either unequal (as in Brazil or Chile in the 1960s) or else involved an increase in inequality in the 1950s that was followed by a phase of inequality that remained essentially unchanged throughout the 1960s (as in Argentina, Colombia or Mexico

Development economics · Economics · Economy · Equity (law) · Geography · Inequality · Latin Americans · Pace · Per capita · Political science · Sociology · Demography · Economic Theory and Policy · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Income, Poverty, and Inequality