Fifty Years of Change on the U. S. -Mexico Border Growth, Development, and Quality of Life

Name: Fifty Years of Change on the U. S. -Mexico Border Growth, Development, and Quality of Life
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ISBN: 9780292717190

ISBN-10: 0292717199

ISBN-13: 9780292717190

Edition: 2007

Authors: Joan B. Anderson, James Gerber, Lisa Foster

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The U.S. and Mexican border regions have experienced rapid demographic and economic growth over the last fifty years. In this analysis, Joan Anderson and James Gerber offer a new perspective on the changes and tensions pulling at the border from both sides through a discussion of cross-border economic issues and thorough analytical research that examines not only the dramatic demographic and economic growth of the region, but also shifts in living standards, the changing political climate, and environmental pressures, as well as how these affect the lives of people in the border region. Creating what they term a Border Human Development Index, the authors rank the quality of life for every…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 12/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 285
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

JOAN B. ANDERSON is Professor of Economics at the University of San Diego.JAMES GERBER is Director of the Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of Economics at San Diego State University.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: The United States-Mexico Border



Along the United States-Mexico Border



Population Growth and Migration



U.S. Border States and Border Relations



Trade, Investment, and Manufacturing



The Environment



Formal and Informal Labor



Income, Equity, and Poverty



Living Standards



Human Development in the Border Region



The Future of United States-Mexico Border Regions


Notes


References


Index