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Go to search page The Montevideo-Oxford Latin American Economic History Data Base,
'MOxLAD', represents a partnership between the Economic and Social
History Programme - (PHES), of the Universidad de la Republica,
Montevideo, and the Latin American Centre and the Department of
International Development, Oxford University. The object of the
partnership is to extend and renovate the data base previously known as
OxLAD, and develop associated activities. The data base contains
statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators
covering twenty countries in the region for the twentieth century and
beyond. Its purpose is to provide economic and social historians
worldwide with a systematic collection of available statistical
information in a single on-line source. The data presented in MOxLAD
have been collected with a view toward providing comprehensive coverage
while ensuring as much consistency and intercountry comparability as
possible in the definition, coverage, and valuation of the series. The
initial goal was systematic coverage of the twentieth century, but the
coverage is now being expanded, both backwards to 1870 and forwards to
2010.
The original data base derived from a project on the economic history of
twentieth century Latin America, funded by the Interamerican Development
Bank, which resulted in the study published as Thorp, R,. Progress,
Poverty and Exclusion: an Economic History of Latin America in the
Twentieth Century (Washington D.C.: Interamerican Development Bank
1998). The material appeared as the statistical appendix to Thorp 1998
and was compiled by Pablo Astorga under the direction of Valpy
Fitzgerald and Rosemary Thorp. The data base was corrected, updated and
extended during 2002-3 by Ame Berges under the guidance of Valpy
Fitzgerald. This was made possible by a grant from the Hewlett
Foundation.
The development of the data base will be managed by the coordinator in
Montevideo (at present Luis Bertola). He will report to an executive
committee with representatives from the three core institutions. An
international Advisory Committee is also being assembled.
The present expansion is being funded by the Economic and Social History
Programme of the Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo (project “Latin
American Development in Comparative Perspective” GUINCHE-group granted
by CSIC; Economic and Economic History Data base). It is also supported
by grants by Oxford University (Latin American Centre and the Department
of International Development), and by the Banco de la República Oriental
del Uruguay.
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