On the Origins of ISI

The Latin American Cement Industry, 1900-30

Bibliographic Data

ID3256377
AuthorsXavier Tafunell (0000-0003-4589-5074, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume39
Issue2
Pages299-328
Publication date2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x07002398
OpenAlexW2105146576
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This article explores the achievements of industrialisation in Latin America in the period before 1930, the date traditionally considered to be the start of the ISI process. It analyses the development of a basic industrial sector, the cement industry, which was driven by a natural substitution of imports. It quantifies the expansion of demand in each of the countries in the region, and then moves on to consider the growth of the industry in Latin America in the period between 1900 and 1930. Although cement consumption grew briskly, particularly in the most underdeveloped economies, disparities in levels of consumption and production among countries in the region continued to be very great in 1930, while the gap between Latin America and the most industrialised economies grew slightly

Consumption (sociology) · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Industrialisation · Latin Americans · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Period (music) · Political science · Private consumption · Sociology · Economic Theory and Policy · Global trade and economics · History and Politics in Latin America

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