Synopses & Reviews
The book expresses the views of the contributors about the present and future of Central America. Only by becoming more efficient in productivity, or by exporting non-traditional products, can this region meet the challenge ahead. Central American countries are accepting the challenge by diversifying their economies and accepting the advice of the world in terms of privatization, freedom of trade, capital, and free movement of labor. Central America needs a market for all of its products, and understanding for its new economic structure.
Review
Upper-division undergraduate through faculty.Choice
Synopsis
This work looks at contemporary issues in Central America as related to economic growth and development. It presents a diversity of views from scholars in the United States, Central America and the world at large concerning the future of the region.
About the Author
IRMA T. de ALONSO is Professor of Economics at Florida International University.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Central America: The Challenges of Trade, Industrialization, and Integration in the Twentieth Century by Irma T. de Alonso and Bernadette West
Central America: A Macroeconomic Assessment by Irma T. de Alonso
Trade in Central America
Structure of Trade in Central America by Irma T. de Alonso and David R. Hicks
Industrialization and Trade in Central America by Irma T. de Alonso
Mexico as a Potential Market for Central American and Caribbean Products by Irma T. de Alonso and Jorge Salazar-Carrillo
Industrialization and Integration in Central America
The Intensity of Central American Economic Integration by Luis R. Caceres and Carlos A. Imendia
Assembly Operations in Central America by Gregory K. Schoepfle and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez
Panama: Economic Integration Alternatives, Implications, and Perspectives by Francisco E. Thoumi
The Central American Common Market: An Analysis of Welfare Effects from 1970 to 1984 by Patrick C. Flower and Walton T. Wilford
Special Issues
Economic Prospects for Central America in the Decade of the 1990s by Raul Moncarz and Antonio Jorge
A Review of Recent Central American Economic Policies, Persisting Difficulties, and Strategies for Trade and Industrialization: Implications for Industrialization and Trade by Juan J. Buttari
The Dilemma of Export Revival: Nicaraguan Agriculture at a Turning Point by Richard Weisskoff
Challenges and Prospects for Central America in a Global Trade Context by Juan M. Villasuso
Index