Innovation, Competitiveness, and Development in Latin America provides a balanced and topical analysis of the successes and failures of development policy in post-war Latin America. Across nineteen chapters, experts in the economics and policy of Latin American development and policy identify the challenges at hand. They explore why the region is caught in a middle-income trap, where structural impediments frustrate the achievement of accelerated and sustainable growth. At the same time, potential actions are suggested for creating lasting progress. With fresh insights grounded in the reality…mehr
Innovation, Competitiveness, and Development in Latin America provides a balanced and topical analysis of the successes and failures of development policy in post-war Latin America. Across nineteen chapters, experts in the economics and policy of Latin American development and policy identify the challenges at hand. They explore why the region is caught in a middle-income trap, where structural impediments frustrate the achievement of accelerated and sustainable growth. At the same time, potential actions are suggested for creating lasting progress. With fresh insights grounded in the reality of modern-day Latin America, this book offers scholars and professionals a crucial window into Latin America's long-term developmental trajectory.
Edmund Amann is Professor of Brazilian Studies at Leiden University and Visiting Professorial Lecturer in the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research centers on regulation, innovation, and foreign direct investment in a developing country context, particularly Latin America and especially Brazil. He has published a wide range of books and journal articles and was author of the Economist Intelligence Unit's Brazil Country Report. Paulo N. Figueiredo is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. Figueiredo's research focuses on the process of technological capability building at the level of firms and industries and considers its causes and consequences for industrial innovation and economic growth in developing economies. He is also Senior Research Associate at the Department of International Development at University of Oxford.
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* Section I: Introduction and Context * Chapter 1: Introduction * -Edmund Amann and Paulo N. Figueiredo * Section II: Thematic Issues * Chapter 2: Institutional Challenges, the Middle-Income Trap, and the Pursuit of Global Economic Integration in Latin America * -Mahrukh Doctor * Chapter 3: China and the "Middle-Income Trap" in Latin America: Constraints and Opportunities * -Rhys Jenkins * Chapter 4: Development, Trajectories, and Catch Up: Lessons from the Latin American and Scandinavian Experiences * -Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Nicolas Eterovic * Chapter 5: The Co-Evolution of FDI and the Output and Export Structures of Brazil and Mexico, 2000-2015 * -André Pineli and Rajneesh Narula * Chapter 6: Global Value Chain-Oriented Policies in Latin America * -Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti, and Ari Van Assche * Chapter 7: Innovation and Competitiveness: The Regional Dimension * -Carlos Azzoni and Milene Tessarin * Chapter 8: The Extractive Sector and Development in Latin America: The Rising Role of Transparency in Natural Resource Governance * -P. Fenton Villar, E. Papyrakis, and L. Pellegrini * Chapter 9: Environmental, Energy, and Sustainability Issues * -Tereza Bicalho, Rodrigo A. Bellezoni, and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira * Chapter 10: Energy Transition in Brazil: Contributions from Technological Leapfrogging in the Sugarcane Bioethanol Sector * -Paulo N. Figueiredo * Chapter 11: Digitalisation in Latin America: A Divide in the Making? * -João Carlos Ferraz, Julia Torracca, Gabriela Arona, and Wilson Peres * Section III: Country Experiences * Chapter 12: Argentina: Building New Capabilities and Competitive Advantages in a Challenging Macroeconomic Landscape * -Bernardo Kosacoff and Mariana Fuchs * Chapter 13: Brazil: Economic Crisis, Structural Change, and Breaking out of the Middle-Income Trap * -Edmund Amann * Chapter 14: Colombia's Growth since the 1990s: From Reform to the Risk of the Middle-Income Trap * -Ivan Luzardo-Luna * Chapter 15: Moving up the Value Chain in Mexico: FDI, Learning, Clusters and the Creation of New Capabilities * -Clemente Ruiz Durán and Moises Balestro * Chapter 16: Peru and the Search for a Development Model that Works * -John Crabtree * Chapter 17: Uruguay: Public Policies in a Period of Inclusive Growth without Structural Change * -Carlos Bianchi and Fernando Isabella * Chapter 18: Costa Rica: The Challenge of Diversification in a Small Country Context * -Jeffrey Orozco and Keynor Ruiz * Section IV: Final Remarks * Chapter 19: Conclusions * -Edmund Amann and Paulo N. Figueiredo * Notes * Idex
* Section I: Introduction and Context * Chapter 1: Introduction * -Edmund Amann and Paulo N. Figueiredo * Section II: Thematic Issues * Chapter 2: Institutional Challenges, the Middle-Income Trap, and the Pursuit of Global Economic Integration in Latin America * -Mahrukh Doctor * Chapter 3: China and the "Middle-Income Trap" in Latin America: Constraints and Opportunities * -Rhys Jenkins * Chapter 4: Development, Trajectories, and Catch Up: Lessons from the Latin American and Scandinavian Experiences * -Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Nicolas Eterovic * Chapter 5: The Co-Evolution of FDI and the Output and Export Structures of Brazil and Mexico, 2000-2015 * -André Pineli and Rajneesh Narula * Chapter 6: Global Value Chain-Oriented Policies in Latin America * -Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti, and Ari Van Assche * Chapter 7: Innovation and Competitiveness: The Regional Dimension * -Carlos Azzoni and Milene Tessarin * Chapter 8: The Extractive Sector and Development in Latin America: The Rising Role of Transparency in Natural Resource Governance * -P. Fenton Villar, E. Papyrakis, and L. Pellegrini * Chapter 9: Environmental, Energy, and Sustainability Issues * -Tereza Bicalho, Rodrigo A. Bellezoni, and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira * Chapter 10: Energy Transition in Brazil: Contributions from Technological Leapfrogging in the Sugarcane Bioethanol Sector * -Paulo N. Figueiredo * Chapter 11: Digitalisation in Latin America: A Divide in the Making? * -João Carlos Ferraz, Julia Torracca, Gabriela Arona, and Wilson Peres * Section III: Country Experiences * Chapter 12: Argentina: Building New Capabilities and Competitive Advantages in a Challenging Macroeconomic Landscape * -Bernardo Kosacoff and Mariana Fuchs * Chapter 13: Brazil: Economic Crisis, Structural Change, and Breaking out of the Middle-Income Trap * -Edmund Amann * Chapter 14: Colombia's Growth since the 1990s: From Reform to the Risk of the Middle-Income Trap * -Ivan Luzardo-Luna * Chapter 15: Moving up the Value Chain in Mexico: FDI, Learning, Clusters and the Creation of New Capabilities * -Clemente Ruiz Durán and Moises Balestro * Chapter 16: Peru and the Search for a Development Model that Works * -John Crabtree * Chapter 17: Uruguay: Public Policies in a Period of Inclusive Growth without Structural Change * -Carlos Bianchi and Fernando Isabella * Chapter 18: Costa Rica: The Challenge of Diversification in a Small Country Context * -Jeffrey Orozco and Keynor Ruiz * Section IV: Final Remarks * Chapter 19: Conclusions * -Edmund Amann and Paulo N. Figueiredo * Notes * Idex
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