太平洋经济的崛起是当前世界经济中的一个突出现象。它使资本主义世界经济发展不平衡的趋势加强了,对于发展相对迟缓的国家和地区来说,无疑是一场严峻的挑战。拉丁美洲虽不是太平洋经济的主体,但其太平洋沿岸地区也是太平洋经济的一个组成部分。战后拉美曾是经济发展很快的地区,然而80年代上半期以来,拉美与西太平洋国家呈现了不同的发展 The rise of the Pacific economy is a prominent phenomenon in the current world economy. It has intensified the trend of imbalanced economic development in the capitalist world and undoubtedly posed a serious challenge to the relatively slow development of countries and regions. Although Latin America is not the mainstay of the Pacific economy, its Pacific Rim is also an integral part of the Pacific economy. Post-war Latin America was once a rapidly developing region, but Latin America and Western Pacific countries showed different developments since the first half of the 1980s