The Gap Between Latin America and the United States: Political and Institutional Determiners of Economic Development
How and when did the economic gap between Latin America and the United States form? Why couldn't our nations, as opposed to those of East Asia, close the gap? What should be done to close it? These and other questions were analyzed from historical, political, and institutional perspectives by distinguished historians, political scientists and economists from Latin America and the United States.
Their work was presented and debated in the international seminar "Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States." The seminar was organized by the Torcuato di Tella University of Argentina and the Vidanta Foundation and took place in November of 2005 at the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires,MALBA, Constantini Collection.
The final versions of the work presented at the seminar were collected in the book La brecha entre América Latina y Estados Unidos. Determinantes políticos e institucionales del desarrollo económico. The book was edited by Francis Fukuyama and published by the Fondo de Cultura Economica of Buenos Aires in 2006 and translated and published in English under the title Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between the United States and Latin America in Oxford, by Oxford University Press in 2008.
Workshops and Seminars
International seminar "Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States"