FROM EXPORT-IMPORT DEVELOPMENT TO IMPORT-SUBSTITUTION INDUSTRIALIZATION

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• FROM EXPORT-IMPORT DEVELOPMENT TO
  IMPORT-SUBSTITUTION INDUSTRIALIZATION
• (AND BACK AGAIN)
• THE CASE OF ARGENTINA

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CURRENT READINGS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Modern Latin America, chs. 9-10, 12

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BASIC STATS ARGENTINA

• Population (millions) 39.5
• GNP/capita 6,050
• Poverty rate 21

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ARGENTINA OVERVIEW

• Natural Resource Land
• Pampas
• Conquest of the Desert
• European immigration
• The Golden Age (1880s-1930)
• Beef-and-wheat exports to Europe
• Belle époque Buenos Aires
• Political democracy (of sorts)
• Depression and ISI (1930-1970s)
• Military intervention (1930) and ISI
• Juan Perón , the working class, and polarization
• Repression and Democracy (1976-present)
• Military dictatorship (1976-1983)
• Democracy (1983-present)
• Economic uncertainty reliance on exports
  (again)