Curriculum Latin America's Economies
Latin America's Economies
From Mexico to Argentina - import substitution, the Washington Consensus, inflation battles, deep inequality, commodities, lithium and the Amazon.
- Latin America's Economies: An Overview A tour of the region's major economies, what they have in common, and why Latin America has often been called a region of unfulfilled promise. 📄 Read-aloud
- Import Substitution Industrialisation The strategy many Latin American countries followed from the 1930s to the 1980s of building domestic industry behind high tariffs, and why it ran into trouble. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Washington Consensus and Its Critics The market-oriented reforms promoted across Latin America after the debt crisis, what they achieved, and why they became so controversial. 📄 Read-aloud
- Why Latin America Is So Unequal The historical roots and modern causes of Latin America's high inequality, and how policies in the 2000s reduced it. 📄 Read-aloud
- Brazil: Commodities, Industry and the Real Plan The economy of Latin America's largest country, from ending hyperinflation with the Real Plan to becoming an agricultural superpower. 📄 Read-aloud
- Mexico, NAFTA and the USMCA How free trade with the United States and Canada transformed Mexico's economy, who gained and lost, and the shift to nearshoring. 📄 Read-aloud
- Latin America's Economies: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on the region's economies, import substitution, the Washington Consensus, inequality and Brazil. 5 questions
- Chile: Reforms, Growth and Protest How Chile became one of Latin America's richest and fastest-growing economies, its private pension system, and why mass protests erupted in 2019. 📄 Read-aloud
- Latin America's Long Fight With Inflation Why Latin America suffered chronic high inflation and hyperinflation for decades, and how independent central banks and inflation targets brought it down. 📄 Read-aloud
- Informal Work in Latin America Why around half of Latin American workers lack formal jobs, what that means for workers and productivity, and how governments try to formalise work. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Lithium Triangle How Chile, Argentina and Bolivia hold much of the world's lithium, vital for electric vehicle batteries, and the different ways they manage it. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Amazon: Economics of the Rainforest Why the Amazon rainforest is being cleared, what drives deforestation economically, and how Brazil sharply reduced it in the 2000s. 📄 Read-aloud
- Argentina's Shock Therapy Since 2023 How President Javier Milei's government tried to end chronic inflation and deficits through sharp spending cuts and deregulation, and the debate over its costs. 📄 Read-aloud
- Brazil's Pix: A Payments Revolution How Brazil's central bank launched an instant payment system in 2020 that quickly became the country's most popular way to pay, with parallels to India's UPI. 📄 Read-aloud