Interpretative Essays of Historical Statistics

on Latin America in World Context

 

STATISTICALLY MEASURING CHANGE

IN

LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD

 

VOLUME 3 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

 

XII. U.S. Assistance to Latin America and the Region's Debt

J. Wilkie. "U.S. Foreign Policy and Economic Assistance in Bolivia. 1948-1976" (1982)

 

J. Wilkie. "Bolivia: Ironies in the National Revolutionary Process, 1952-86" (1987)

 

Christof A. Weber. "Announced U.S. Assistance to Latin America. 1946-1988: Who Gets It? How Much? And When? (1990)

 

Christof A. Weber. "Measuring Indebtedness: Latin American Total External Debt Per Capita. 1970-1989"· (1992)

 

XIII. Demography

 

John E. Kizca. "Mexican Demographic History of the Nineteenth Century: Evidence and Approaches (1981)

 

 

Richard Wilkie "Mexico" Excerpt from Latin American Population and Urbanization Analysis: Maps and Statistics. 1950-1982 (1984)

 

Ronald E. Young. "Measuring Megacephalia: Population Concentration in the Largest City in Each Latin American Country, 1920-1990" (1991)

 

XIV. Social Change

 

 

J. Wilkie and Maj-Britt Nilsson. "Projecting the HEC (Health, Education and Communication) Index for Latin America Back to 1940" (1977)

 

Donald B. Keesing. "Employment and Lack of Employment in Mexico. 1900-1970" (1977)

 

Stephen Haber. "Modernization and Change in Mexican Communities. 1930-1970" (1982)

 

XV. Mexico and the United States

 

Aldo R. Flores Quiroga. "U.S. Direct in Investment in Mexico: A Comparison of Mexican and U.S. Data (1991)

 

David E. Lorey. "The United States-Mexico Border in the Twentieth Century: A Quantitative View of Basic Economic and Social Trends" (1991)