Trade, Industrialization, And Integration In Twentieth-Century Central America: [Hardcover]

The book expresses the views of the contributors about the present and future of Central America. Only by becoming more efficient in productivity, or by exporting non-traditional products, can this region meet the challenge ahead. Central American countries are accepting the challenge by diversifying their economies and accepting the advice of the world in terms of privatization, freedom of trade, capital, and free movement of labor. Central America needs a market for all of its products, and understanding for its new economic structure.IRMA T. de ALONSO is Professor of Economics at Florida International University. Dr. Alonso has taught in universities in Central America, and pursued her training in England and Puerto Rico. Her research interests are in international trade, purchasing power parties, and human resources. She has published many journal articles and book chapters in addition to the following books:Elasticidad Ingreso de la Contribucion Sobre Ingresos En Puerto Rico y Jamaica, 1955-1963,Methodos Econometicos(with M. Dutta) andTrade Issues in the Caribbean.

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Preface
Introduction
Central America: The Challenges of Trade, Industrialization, and Integration in the Twentieth Century by Irma T. de Alonso and Bernadette West
Central America: A Macroeconomic Assessment by Irma T. de Alonso
Trade in Central America
Structure of Trade in Central America by Irma T. de Alonso and David R. Hicks
Industrialization and Trade in Central America by Irma T. de Alonso
Mexico as a Potential Market for Central American and Caribbean Products by Irma T. de Alonso and Jorge Salazar-Carrillo
Industrialization and Integration in Central America
The Intensity of Central American Economic Integration by Luis R. C?ceres and Carlos A. Imendia
Assembly Operations in Central America by Gregory K. Schoepfle and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez
Panama: Economic Integration Alternatives, Implications, and lđ