Prosperity's Promise: The Amazon Rubber Boom And Distorted Economic Development

By Bradford L. Barham and Oliver Coomes

This study provides the first integrative economic analysis of one of Latin America's most explosive natural resource export booms. The authors combine economic and geographical perspectives to build persuasive theoretical and empirical arguments linking micro- and macroeconomic processes and to explain the key features and outcomes of the boom. They conclude by laying out the essential lessons learned for assessing the role of resource extraction in developing regional economies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813389968
• ISBN13: 9780813389967
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Westview Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 6.5"