Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Bertola, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
fostered trade, policy suppressed it: tariff rates were higher in Latin America than almost anywhere else in the world between …How much of the good growth performance in Latin America between 1870 and 1913 can be assigned to the forces of … that helped liberate Latin America from that isolation, a pro-global force. It then asks how independence contributed to …