Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. General remarks on foreign trade

Collection:: Economics Books

FOREIGN TRADE ii countries that overcrowded Europe must come for elbow room—for a glimpse of the sun. Once a business or a plant is established in Latin America one need not have the intense fear of bitter local competition. These peo ple have never been manufacturing or creative in their desires, and the chances are, if we are to predicate their future from their past, that they never will become competitors in any of these fields. Climatic conditions, racial and inherited traits have made them follow the lines of least resistance and they have become cattle raisers and large farmers, while com paratively few have entered commercial life. This being true it follows that these countries are ideal for those desirous of leading an active commercial or manufacturing career. All of Latin America is in the process of awakening. They are building railways, making vast municipal and national improve ments, exploiting their natural resources, modernizing their agricultural methods. The advent of the foreigner has been potent in rais ing their standard of living. If these people

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