Contemporary Latin American Economies 4206-AE12

1. The legacy of the colonial era and the formation of independent states (1810-1870).
• 2. Development based on raw material exports (1870-1929).
• 3. The repercussions of the Great Depression, the formation of a import substitution strategy (1930-1945).
• 4. The apogee of ISI strategy, its variants (1945-1975).
• 5. Mechanisms of rising imbalances and disparities in the 70s.
• 6. The debt crisis of 1982, ways of overcoming.
• 7. The "lost decade" of the eighties: the inflationary processes and stabilization policy.
• 8. The internal and external liberalization of the Latin American economies.
• 9. Deregulation and the development of market institutions
• 10. A new generation of integration groups and new place of Latin America in the global economy.
• 11. Latin America during the global financial crisis.