Studies in the Economics of Central America

A study explaining how the social upheavals which led to the Nicaraguan revolution and the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala were rooted in the export-led model followed in the region. The author also explores their efforts to achieve regional co-operation in the economic sphere.

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Part 1 Long-run studies: economic development over the long run - Central America since 1920; Central America in the inter-war period. Part 2 Central American co-operation: the Central American Common Market; regional integration within a policy regime of openness; economic relations between Central America and Western Europe. Part 3 Central America in crisis: the balance-of-payments crisis and adjustment programmes in Central America; world recession and Central American depression - lessons from the 1930s for the 1980s; the Kissinger Report; the new model of development in Costa Rica.