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Import Substitution and Industrialization in Latin America: Experiences and Interpretations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Werner Baer
Werner Baer*
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Vanderbilt University
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Throughout most of the fifties and sixties many latin american governments adopted Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) as their principal method to achieve economic growth and socio-economic modernization. By the opening of the Seventies, however, there is considerable doubt about ISI's success in solving the region's development problems. In many countries the possibilities for further import-substitution had disappeared. Industrial growth had slowed, job opportunities in industry for Latin America's rapidly growing urban population were scarce, income distribution had in many countries either remained unchanged or had become more concentrated than in the early post-World War II years, and most industrial goods produced within the region were priced so high that export possibilities were severely limited.

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Topical Review
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Spring 1972 , pp. 95 - 122
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Copyright © 1972 by the University of Texas Press

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The author wishes to thank David Felix, Andrea Maneschi, Carlos M. Pelaez, William Steel, and William O. Thweatt for many useful suggestions.

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