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The economy of Central America is the eleventh-largest economy in Latin America, behind Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia. According to the World Bank, the nominal GDP of Central America reached 204 billion US dollar in 2010, as recovery from the crisis of 2009, where gross domestic product (GDP) suffered a decline to 3.8%. [1]
8 cze 2020 · Central American history is a tale of two economies: one founded on food security and community; the other on amassing private fortunes. Peasant prosperity depends on access to land, forests, and local markets; business prosperity depends on land, labor, capital, and global markets.
Historiographies that have been influenced by postmodern sensibilities, particularly critical race theory, the new cultural history, and subaltern studies, have influenced recent understanding of the political economy of race and nationality in Central America.
21 lis 2012 · Introduction. Throughout the colonial period, Central America existed in the shadow of Mexico. The Spanish Empire’s preoccupation with its economic, political, and religious interests in Mexico afforded a certain degree of autonomy to those living and governing in Central America.
In this book Victor Bulmer-Thomas uses his previously unpublished estimates of the national accounts to explore economic and social development in the five Central American republics from 1920. He examines in detail variations in economic policy between countries which help to account for differences in performance.
The best general book on an individual Central American state is David Browning, El Salvador: Landscape and Society (Oxford, 1971). On the Central American coffee economies, see C. Cardoso, ‘Historia económica del café en Centroamérica (siglo XIX): Estudio comparativo’, ESC, 4/10 (1975), 9–55.
The size and basic characteristics of the countries of Central America make them an ideal case study of the development of export economies. They have relatively simple economic structures, which, in the majority of cases, have been dominated for a considerable time...
