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La América Latina y El Caribe en 1913 y 1925. Enfoque desde las importaciones de bienes de capital

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  • Tafunell, Xavier

    (Departamento de Economía y Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

  • Carreras, Albert

    (Departamento de Economía y Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Abstract

We study the levels of economic development achieved by every independent Latin American and Caribbean country in 1913 and 1925 from a new regional perspective. We focus on the imports and the domestic production –equivalent to apparent consumption- of capital goods. The first contribution is to establish the reliability of the foreign trade statistics. The second is to estimate the size of the capital goods acquired by the twenty republics. We also is to estimate domestic output. The new empirical evidence shows the huge differences existing within the region in per capita expenditure by 1913, when the first globalization wave was coming to an end. The comparison between 1913 and 1925 levels makes clear that, generally speaking, First World War and its immediate aftermath did favor capital goods import substitution all over the region, but quite unevenly.// En este artículo estudiamos el desarrollo económico alcanzado por la totalidad de los Estados latinoamericanos y caribeños soberanos en 1913 y 1925 desde una perspectiva inédita en el estudio del conjunto de la región: las importaciones y la producción –que sumadas equivalen al consumo aparente– de bienes de capital. Asegurada la fiabilidad de las estadísticas del comercio exterior, procedemos a reconstruir las magnitudes de los bienes de capital adquiridos por las 20 repúblicas. También estimamos la producción interna. La nueva evidencia empírica pone de manifiesto las enormes diferencias existentes en el seno de la región en el consumo per cápita de bienes de capital al término de la primera oleada globalizadora. La comparación entre los niveles de 1913 y 1925 revela que, en general, la contienda mundial no favoreció el proceso de sustitución de importaciones de la región, pero no en todos los países por igual.

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  • Tafunell, Xavier & Carreras, Albert, 2008. "La América Latina y El Caribe en 1913 y 1925. Enfoque desde las importaciones de bienes de capital," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(299), pages 715-753, julio-sep.
  • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:75:y:2008:i:299:p:715-753
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v75i299.417
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    1. Ward, Marianne & Devereux, John, 2012. "The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(1), pages 104-132, March.

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    Keywords

    formación de capital; importaciones; primera globalización; sustitución de importaciones; América Latina y el Caribe;
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    JEL classification:

    • F02 - International Economics - - General - - - International Economic Order and Integration
    • N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • N76 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology

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