Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Contributors xi
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. Part I: The Institutional Turn
7. 2. Industrialization, Trade, and Economic Growth 17
8. 3. Institutions, Property Rights, and Why Nations Fail 45
9. 4. With the Best of Intentions: Types of Development Failure in Latin America 65
10. 5. What Makes an Institution “Developmental”? A Comparative Analysis 90
11. Part II: The Post-Boom Challenges
12. 6. Latin America’s Mounting Development Challenges 121
13. 7. Economic Performance in Latin America in the 2000s: Recession, Recovery, and Resilience? 141
14. 8. South America after the Commodity Boom 163
15. 9. China in Latin America: Social and Environmental Lessons for Institutions in a Commodity Boom 186
16. 10. Some Concluding Thoughts 214
17. Index 219