Briefly describe economic growth in Latin America from 1900 to the 1980s

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From 1900 to 1960, the region's real GDP per capita grew as fast as or faster than that of Europe, the United States, or Asia. After World War II, most countries in Latin America experienced good rates of growth, and the two largest countries, Brazil and Mexico, had remarkable increases in their per capita income levels. Circumstances began to change as world economic growth slowed in the 1970s, and Latin American experiences became more varied. Some countries grew faster in the 1970s and some grew slower, but nearly all relied more heavily on government expenditures to stimulate growth. The undoing of this period was the onset of the Latin American Debt Crisis, which led to negative economic growth.