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Tables and Figures Table 2.1. Alternative Measures of Central Bank Independence, 1980–89 38 Table 4.1. Selected Domestic Macroeconomic Indicators for Chile, 1971–89 77 Table 4.2. Chile: Sectoral Economic Trends, 1974–82 80 Table 4.3. Chile: Selected International Economic Indicators, 1970–89 86 Table 5.1. Chile: Selected Domestic Macroeconomic Indicators, 1990–94 127 Table 5.2. Chile: Volume and Composition of Medium- and Long-Term Private Capital Flows, 1980–94 136 Table 6.1. Mexico: Selected Domestic Macroeconomic Indicators, 1980–93 141 Table 6.2. Mexico: Selected International Economic Indicators, 1980–93 143 Table 6.3. Typology of Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector 147 Table 6.4. Mexico: Indicators for the Ten Largest Private National Groups and Their Links with the Large Firms, 1992 150 Table 7.1. Mexico: Electoral Competition in National Elections, 1964–94 191 Table 7.2. Mexico: Federal Deputy Election Results by State, 1991–97 195 Table 9.1. Chile versus Mexico 242 Fig. 3.1. The degree of threat 47 Fig. 4.1. Chile: Industrial restructuring by sector (% of GNP) 81 Fig. 4.2. Chile: Industrial restructuring (% change with respect to production potential) 84 Fig. 4.3. Chile: Industrial restructuring (% of GNP) 85 Fig. 6.1. Mexico: Support for the ruling party’s presidential candidate, 1946–94 163 Fig. A7.1. Mexico: Nonperforming loans, 1989–94 213 Fig. A7.2. Mexico: Quarterly growth of GDP, 1992–94 215 x Defusing Democracy ...

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