...Adriana Calcagno; Pedro Garcia Duarte Abstract Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado were two important contributors to development economics and to the theories and policies defended by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC). In this article, we argue that understanding...

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..., 236. Teaching of economics: in Italy, See also Economic Commission for 173-76; teaching posts in British Latin America (ECLA) universities, 39 United Nations Conference of Trade Technology, economics as, 106-7 and Development (UNCTAD), 21 I, Technopols, 345; Latin...

... in Latin America. Joint Report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. New York: United Nations. United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (UNECLA). Annual. Economic Survey of Latin America. Santiago: United Nations...

... Development Finance Companies Dr.Habi1 Doktor Habilitatus D.Phi1 Doctor of Philosophy DSR Debt Service Ratio 402 Acronyms EC European Community ECE Economic Commission for Europe ECLA Economic Commission for Latin America ED1...

... for advanced study in the United States, and subsequent repatriation, where they helped to raise the general quality of economic education in several countries. Opportunities for higher education in Latin America had risen to the point where students from poor countries like Guatemala and Costa...

..., 301n28 in Eastern Europe, 55, 70, 73 forced, 30n2, 41 in Italy, 261, 265, 276 of Japa­ ­nese econ­omy, 79 80, 101 in Latin America, 184, 186, 188, 193, 200 202 (see also United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America [ECLAC]) in USSR, 301n28 indus­try, 15, 43, 46, 69, 88, 110, 127, 146, 164 airc­...

... that, after decades of intra-professional struggle, has led to a conver- gence of viewpoints and approaches within an internationalized profes- sion. Up to the 1970s, the predominant outlook was statist, nationalis- tic, and protectionist, centering on the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA...

... had displayed an early interest in the problems of economic development in backward regions. He had held a position as assistant professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University since 1940 and in 1946 began working as a consultant on Latin America for the United Nations. After spending two...

...) . Geneva : Droz . Deaton Angus . 2013 . The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) . 1990 . Changing Production Patterns with Social Equity . Santiago...

... theories of economic development associated with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA, or CEPAL in its Spanish acro- nym) and with those economists who shared the view that neoclassical theory was ill suited to handle the reality of underdeveloped and developing countries...

... the 1960s, Trifn advanced similar plans for other geo- graphical areas such as Latin America, Asia, and Africa. He submitted his proposal to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the mid-1950s, when rst initiatives were launched to reorga- nize and simplify the system...

... as just an “imperfection in search of its Chamberlain” (Furtado 1985, 91; 1987a, 101). From 1950 to 1957 Celso Furtado (1920–2004; see Boianovsky 2008 for background information on his life and work) was head of the devel- opment division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin...

... Campus. Her research on the politics of economic policy- making in Chile has led her to examine the political and institutional dimensions of regional economic integration in Latin America. Jacques J. Polak, a citizen of the Netherlands, holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University...

... by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL, in Spanish and Portuguese), led by Celso Furtado and especially Raúl Prebisch, born in Brazil and Argentina, respectively. Development policy was based on import-substituting industrialization, which has been often interpreted...

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... by the League of Nations (Marcus 2018 ), while the US government had supported similar missions to Latin America and Asia during the interwar period, most famously with Edwin Kemmerer's missions and the related “transfer of technology” (Drake 1989 : 2; Gomez Betancourt in this issue). Agricultural experts...

... in the professional project of structuralist economists was the establishment of work organizations controlled by members of this group.15 The 1948 founding of the United Nations Eco- nomic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) was crucial for the struc- turalist project. Initially, the prospects for the new...

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