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The China Triangle: Latin America´s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus
Kevin P. Gallagher
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Description for The China Triangle: Latin America´s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus
Hardback. Drawing on ten years of research and traveling along the China-Latin America economic relationship, Gallagher tracks how the rise of China impacted Latin America, how Latin America squandered much of the benefits gained during its China boom, and how Latin Americans can better position themselves to turn growing Asian trade into prosperity. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KL; JPS; KCL; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165. .
In less than a quarter century, China has gone from one of the poorest to one of the largest economies in the world. As China grew from a rural economy to the largest industrial powerhouse since the Industrial Revolution, it demanded more and more steel for factories and new cities, copper for electronic wires, petroleum for cars and manufacturing plants, and soybeans to feed people and cattle in a country with an increasing standard of living and diversified diet. Many Latin American countries rode China's coattails and prospered. From the turn of the century when China entered the ... Read more
In less than a quarter century, China has gone from one of the poorest to one of the largest economies in the world. As China grew from a rural economy to the largest industrial powerhouse since the Industrial Revolution, it demanded more and more steel for factories and new cities, copper for electronic wires, petroleum for cars and manufacturing plants, and soybeans to feed people and cattle in a country with an increasing standard of living and diversified diet. Many Latin American countries rode China's coattails and prospered. From the turn of the century when China entered the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
415g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190246730
SKU
V9780190246730
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About Kevin P. Gallagher
Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University's Pardee School for Global Studies, where he co-directs the Global Economic Governance Initiative. He has been a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University, Tsinghua University, and the Center for the State and Society in Argentina. Gallagher has authored and edited more than ten book and writes frequently ... Read more
Reviews for The China Triangle: Latin America´s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus
As professor at Boston University's Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies, he has established himself as one of the most prolific and widely quoted economists in this field, and The China Triangle attests to that reputation...The book sums up much of his work over the past several years and as such presents a good overview of the opportunities and ... Read more