Interpretative Essays of Historical Statistics

on Latin America in World Context

 

STATISTICALLY MEASURING CHANGE

IN

LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD

 

VOLUME 4 OF 4

 

SEMINAR IN HISTORICAL STATISTICS

 

UCLA

 

PROFESSOR JAMES W. WILKIE

 

Winter 2012

 

The articles included here were originally

Developed in the Graduate Seminar and Published

in or under the auspices of the

Statistical Abstract of Latin America (SALA)

And its Supplement Series.

 

(Copyright by UCLA Latin American Center Publications)

 

 

  CONTENTS

 

 

Themes and Titles

 

 

 

 

James W. Wilkie and Olga M. Lazín. "Mexico as Linchpin for Free Trade in the Americas" (1995)

 

 

 

Olga M. Lazín, "Emerging World Trade Blocs: The North American Free Trade Area and the European Union Compared" (1995)

 

 

 

James W. Wilkie. Excerpts from Statistics and National Policy [in Latin America] (1974):

 

 

 

 

"Foreward: Informational Limitations on the Development of National Policy" (1974)

 

"Introduction:

Comparative Statistics and Planning

Uses of Time-Series Data

Historical Statistics in the Study of

Latin America" (1974)

 

 

 

"New Hypthotheses for Statistical Research in Recent Mexican History" (1971)

 

 

 

"Mexico City as a Magnet for Mexico's Economy. 1930-1965" (1970)

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Statistical Indicators of the Impact of National Revolution on the Catholic Church in Mexico. 1910-1967" (1970)

 

 

 

 

 

"Bolivian Foreign Trade: Historical Problems and MNR Revolutionary Policy. 1952-1964" (1971)

 

 

 

 

 

"Bolivian Public Expenditure Since 1952" (1971)

 

 

 

"Recentralization: The Budgetary Dilemma in the Economic Development of Mexico, Bolivia, and Costa Rica" (1974)

 

 

 

"An Overview [of Data in Statistics and National Policy]" (1974)

 

 

 

"Budgetary [Data for] Costa Rica. Bolivia and Mexico" (1974)

 

 

 

"The Alliance for Progress and Latin American Development" (1974)

 

 

 

"National Policy in an International Context: Images of the Chilean Case" (1974)

 

 

 

"Afterward" (1974)

 

 

David E. Lorey and Aida Mostkoff, "Mexico's 'Lost Decade.' 1980-1990:

Evidence on Class Structure and Professional Employment from the 1990 Census" (1993)

 

Enrique C. Ochoa, "The Rapid Expansion of Voter Participation in Latin America: Presidential Elections, 1845-1986" (1987)

 

Charles N. Grimes, "Soviet Economic Relations with Latin America: Trade and Economic Assistance since 1964" (1989)

 

Christof Anders Weber. "United States Foreign Assistance to Central America, 1946-1989: A Tool of Foreign Policy" (1993)

 

Alfonso Galindo: "Educational Backgrounds of Mexican High-Level Government Officials, 1972-1989" (1993)

 

Richard W. Wilkie and Francis E. Lindsey, "Urbanization versus the Persistence of Small Places in Mexico. 1900-1990" (1995)

 

Carlos Albert Contreras and Peter L. Reich, " Numbers and the State: An Overview of Government Statistical Compilation in Mexico Since the Colonial Period" (1995)