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Reflections from Latin America: Latin America and the Ideology of Development
Ibsen Martinez*
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August 6, 2007

To me it is simply a mystery why the Spanish edition of William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economist's Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2002) has gone almost unnoticed to both reviewers and readers in Latin America.
Yet, it is hard to think of a book so relevant to one of the debate on how to defeat poverty and backwardness in our nations.
Easterly's work could provide many Latin American scholars, policymakers and politicians with a penetrating survey of the ideas behind so many failed development policies tried in our region for at least five decades. To be sure, he makes his case against what he calls "the ideology of development" with a quick-witted and frequently humorous writing that reads with congenial ease in Spanish.
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