Basic organizational data on membership, dues, budgets, expenditures, and staff are exceedingly scarce for business associations in Latin America. Historical documents were often discarded, destroyed by fires, floods, and other natural disasters, or shipped to inaccessible warehouses. Maintaining well-staffed and organized archival centers was rarely a priority area of building institutional capacity in associations. And contemporary data on budgets, revenues, and expenditures were often treated as highly confidential. The purpose of this appendix is to summarize data I culled from unpublished sources and centralize information collected from the dispersed secondary literature. The list of associations and the basic data are still only partial The dates in parentheses after the full names of the associations are the years the associations were founded. All monetary values were converted to U.S. dollars in 2000, except where otherwise noted (see Appendix C).

Argentina

1. AAPIC (Asociación Argentina de la Producción, la Industria y el Comercio, 1946). AAPIC was founded by 14 industrial and commercial firms in 1946. By 1947 it had 61 affiliated organizations and 30,663 active members (Cúneo 1967, 184). AAPIC closed in 1949.

2. ABA (Asociación de Bancos de la Argentina, 1999). ABA was formed through the fusion of ADEBA and other associations. In 2003 ABA had 56 members, including foreign banks, that accounted for 43 percent of deposits (http://www.aba-argentina.com/index.html).

3. ABRA (Asociación de Bancos de la República Argentina, 1919). ABRA was founded by 21 private banks, foreign and national (Niosi 1976, 34).

4. Aciel (Acción Coordinadora de las Instituciones Empresariales Libres, 1958). Aciel was a peak association formed by UIA, SRA, the Stock Market Association, the Chamber of Commerce, the Grain Exchange, and the Bank Association. The anti-Peronist Aciel competed against CGE. UIA resigned from Aciel in 1972, and Aciel disbanded in 1973.

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