...Alexandre Kafka The points just made must not obscure ECLA’s great merits. Its influence has been multifold and its first head, Raúl Prebisch, deserves much credit for it. The stimulus it has brought to systematic economic and statistical research in Latin America has been important...

... of ECLA with industrial interests, save as the latter happened to benefit from a dynamic process indispensable to general development. He also denies a populist bias, since populism failed to produce the penetrating analysis of social problems that was ECLA’s aim. In a critique of the structuralist...

...O. Carlos Stoetzer The study reflects the economic tendencies prevalent in the present decade and inspired by UN-ECLA in Santiago de Chile; that is, the incorporation of Latin America into the global economy, along with ongoing privatization, which, in the 1980s, represented just an option...

... (ECLA), he originated the structuralist school of development. He later headed the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and in that capacity he sought to change the structure of international trade. In the last years of his long life, he became a leading figure in the dependency movement...

... are almost universally accepted, any author, therefore, who seeks to challenge them is unique and not merely from an academic standpoint. To negate successfully the ECLA position would question a myriad of labor policy recommendations being readied for implementation or actually in force. Ramos examines...

... inclusion of his analyses of agrarian reform or of the authoritarian regime in Brazil. The slowing of Latin American growth that led Furtado, as well as ECLA, into gloom by 1967 about prospects for further industrialization, however, turned out to be cyclical rather than structural in origin...

... producing textiles, clothing, footwear, food products, and furniture. Because these light industries show the “highest coefficient of employment per unit of output,” their expansion could provide work for a larger proportion of the population displaced from rural areas. Recent ECLA publications...

... relationships among the themes which run through these distinctive writings. One who is interested in an uncluttered presentation of ECLA views or a handy reference for quotes from ECLA will find this to be an extremely useful document. ...

... Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA). Following his death in 1986, a foundation was established in his name. One of its tasks was the organization of several essays and a bibliography which comprise the volume under review. Originally presented to the World Bank, the lead essay...

... research studies for these years. On the whole, this reviewer regards the results here presented as preferable to those of ECLA in that they are based on year-to-year percentage changes and for this reason are less likely to be affected by the peculiarities of a base year such as 1960, to which the ECLA...

... other efforts to understand economic development and its relations to the industrialized countries: the neoclassicists, Prebisch-ECLA school, dependency theorists, and orthodox Marxists. All these are accused of being either wrong or inadequate. They borrow, however, the ECLA “center-periphery...

...—Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, with a separate chapter on Cuba and less attention to Colombia and Peru. The author is an unreconstructed “structuralist” of the ECLA school, believing that institutional obstacles have had overriding importance in shaping Latin American economic development. His analysis...

... at ECLA, he draws on the resources of that organization and in particular on six background papers prepared for this book. The result is an informed and tightly reasoned survey of the consequences of a decade of economic policies. By the end of 1983, Ramos reports, each of the three countries had gone...

... (ECLA). Gudin has distinguished himself as an able and persistent critic of Raúl Prebisch, whose economic hypotheses have encountered such ready and often uncritical acceptance in Latin America and in the Third World. Confident of the universal validity of traditional economic analysis, Gudin dismisses...

... in this respect; as a result, the volume is a handy reference work for the general reader and an interesting source of hypotheses for the specialist. The ECLA volume compares income distributions among various Latin American countries and several developed countries, concluding that the high level of income...

... right tends to suggest a congruence between the scientific ethos and political democracy. Love treated the relationship between economic theory and policy since 1930, focusing particularly on the origins and development of the doctrines of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA...

... the spurious synthesizing culminates with references to recent pronunciamentos by СТАР, ECLA, and other official agencies, the gist of which is that if Latin American countries can create “a suitable environment for economic development” (p. 99) by increasing agricultural production, reducing income inequality...

... is meant to be complimentary, not derogatory), is the intellectual leader of a group of economists devoted to a study of Brazil’s economy, with special emphasis on the country’s Northeast. After some years with ECLA (Economic Commission for Latin America) and a year at Cambridge, Celso Furtado returned...

... interesting observations, a stimulating contribution (p. 192) to the debate initiated by ECLA-CEPAL over whether the 1930s was a decade in which idle industrial capacity installed in the 1920s was utilized or one in which new capacity was established. Subsequent chapters raise themes of trade policy...

... in a series of economic surveys published annually by the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) since its foundation in the late 1940s. The 1973 survey is divided into three major parts. The first describes the position of Latin America within the world economy, giving particular attention...