ENRIQUE CARDENAS is Professor of Economics and Rector of Universidad de las Am?ricas-Puebla. - JOS? ANTONIO OCAMPO is Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a former Finance Minister of Colombia, Director (Minister) of the National Planning Department of Colombia and Minister of Agriculture of Colombia. - ROSEMARY THORP is Reader in the Economics of Latin America at the University of Oxford, Director of the Latin American Centre and a Fellow of St Antony's College. Recent books include, Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century.

'This is a remarkable project, bringing together the world's leading authorities in the field and some of the best of a rising generation, with a gratifyingly strong representation of Latin American scholarship. The combination of lucid survey chapters with sectoral and national case histories is unique in its quality and scale.' - James Dunkerly In Industrialisation and the State, Thorp and her co-authors explain dispassionately the evolution of the Latin American economies during inward-looking development. Recognising the complexity of the period and the region, this volume helps to puncture many of the myths that surround both the rise of industry in Latin America and the role of the state in promoting development.' Professor Victor Bulmer, University of London '...this large collaborative effort will prove worthwhile to a very wide audience.' - Gail Triner, Latin American Research Review '...a useful and concise source of background information on the economic histories of specific countries...' - Gail D. Triner, Enterprise & Society

• List of Tables and Graphs Notes on the Contributors Introduction; E.Cardenas, J.A.Ocampo & R.Thorp Technological Learning, Institutional Development and the Microeconomics of Import Substitution; J.Katz & B.Kosacoff ECLA and the Theory of Import Substituting Industrialisation in Latin America; E.V.K.FitzGerald The Influence of International Financial Institutions on ISI; R.Webb The Industrialisation of Chile during Protectionism (1940-82); R.Ffrench-Davis, O.Munoz, J.M.Benavente & G.Crespi Import Substitution and Growth in Brazil, 1890s-1970s; R.Abreu, A.S.Bevilaqua & D.M.Pinho The Process of Accelerated Industrialisation in Mexico: 1929-82; E.Cardenas Industrialisation in Venezuela (1936-83): The Problem of Abundance; P.Astorga Colombia in the Classical Era of 'Inward-Looking Development', 1930-74; J.A.Ocampo & C.Tovar Import Substituting Industrialisation in Argentina in the Period 1940-80: Its Achievements and Shortcomings; J.M.Katz Import Substitution, Economic Integration and the Development of Central America: 1950-80; I.Cohen Index