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    <title>political economy of Central America since 1920</title>
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    <namePart>Bulmer-Thomas, Victor</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1948-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1987</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xxiii, 416 pages :  map ;  23 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>In this book Victor Bulmer-Thomas uses his previously unpublished estimates of the national accounts to explore economic and social development in the five Central American republics from 1920. The social upheavals accompanying the post-war export-led boom forced governments in each republic to address the question of economic, social and political reform.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>A century independence: foundations of export-led growth
Central america in the 1920s: reform and consolidation
The 1929 depression
Economic recovery and political reaction in the 1930s
Central america and the second world war
Post-war economic recory
The struggle for democracy, the cold war and the labour
The foundations of modern export-led growth, 1954-60
The illusion of a golden age, 1960-70
External shocks and the challenge to the social order, 1970-9
The descent into regional crisis
Conclusions</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Victor Bulmer-Thomas.</note>
  <note>Includes indexes.</note>
  <note>Bibliography: p. 387-401.</note>
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    <geographic>Central America</geographic>
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  <subject>
    <geographic>América Central</geographic>
    <topic>Política económica</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HC 141 B938p 1987</classification>
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