Export Pioneers in Latin America

Export Pioneers in Latin America
Author: Charles F. Sabel
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Why do some export activities succeed while others fail? Here, research teams analyze export endeavors in Latin American countries to learn how export pioneers are born and jump-start a process leading to economic transformation. Case studies range from blueberries in Argentina and flowers in Colombia to aircraft in Brazil and software in Uruguay.

Export Growth in Latin America

Export Growth in Latin America
Author: Carla Macario
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781555877590

Although Latin American and Caribbean countries have assigned a high priority to increasing exports, export performance in most cases remains deficient. This work investigates why this is so, identifying the policies that determine successes and failures in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.

Regional Investment Pioneers in South Asia

Regional Investment Pioneers in South Asia
Author: Sanjay Kathuria
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464815356

Regional economic engagement within South Asia may gain increasing importance owing to several factors that are currently in play, including strategies to diversify global value chains and locate such value chains nearer home. These developments offer South Asia a chance to enhance its low levels of regional economic engagement and capitalize on significant unrealized development opportunities. This report shows that examining intraregional investment and knowledge connectivity enhances our understanding of the low levels of intraregional trade and limited regional value chains in South Asia. Creating a new and unique data set for South Asian investment, it provides a detailed and nuanced understanding of the drivers of outward investment, both regional and global, for South Asian firms. “Regional Investment Pioneers in South Asia†? provides key considerations for policy makers in South Asia, which remain particularly relevant in the aftermath of the pandemic. First, it makes a case for regulatory relaxation of outward FDI regimes, based on new micro foundations, grounded in value chains. Second, it spells out details of smart inward FDI promotion techniques and investment facilitation. Third, it identifies distinct cross-border information-enhancing and network development activities. Fourth, it suggests that digital connectivity and continued interventions in reducing trade costs are warranted to increase investment as well as trade flows. There is particular scope to build on the digitalization initiatives in trade and investment facilitation taken during the pandemic. “Regional Investment Pioneers in South Asia†? follows on, and is complementary to, the earlier World Bank report, “A Glass Half Full: the Promise of Regional Trade in South Asia.†?

Innovation and Inclusion in Latin America

Innovation and Inclusion in Latin America
Author: Alejandro Foxley
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-06-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137596821

This book argues that Latin America must confront two main challenges: greater innovation to increase productivity, and greater inclusion to incorporate more of the population into the benefits of economic growth. These two tasks are interrelated, and both require greater institutional capacity to facilitate both innovation and inclusion. Most countries in Latin America are struggling to escape what economists label “the middle income trap.” While much if not all of the region has emerged from low income status, neither growth nor productivity has increased sufficiently to enable Latin America to narrow the gap separating it from the world’s most developed economies. Although income inequality has diminished across much of the region in recent years, social vulnerability remains widespread and institutional weaknesses continue to plague efforts to achieve equitable development. This volume identifies lessons that can be learned and adapted from experiences within the region and in East Asia, where the middle income trap has largely been avoided. This book is the result of a collaborative project undertaken by American University’s Center for Latin American & Latino Studies (CLALS) and the Corporation for Latin American Studies (CIEPLAN) in Chile, with financial support from the Inter-American Development Bank’s Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness.

The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America

The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America
Author: Thomas F. O'Brien
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780826319968

Traces the development of U.S. business interests in Latin America from the early 19th century to the present.

Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-State Relations and the New Developmentalism

Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-State Relations and the New Developmentalism
Author: B. Schneider
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2015-03-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137524847

Development economists and practitioners agree that close collaboration between business and government improves industrial policy, yet little research exists on how best to organize that. This book examines three necessary functions–-information exchange, authoritative allocation, and reducing rent seeking–-across experiences in Latin America.

Private Equity and Financial Development in Latin America

Private Equity and Financial Development in Latin America
Author: Ignacio Puente
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030889831

Shallow capital markets are a key bottleneck for private sector development in Latin America. Still, there is not a large literature on capital markets and corporate governance, or on the politics of regulatory reform and business associations, focused on this region. To help address this gap, this new book introduces private equity into the financial development debate through a Latin American lens. The author looks at the cases of Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina. And proposes a shift in the financial development discussion from institutional explanations focused only on rules to an actor-based argument centered on the role of institutional investors, in particular pension funds .

The Politics of Trade in Latin American Development

The Politics of Trade in Latin American Development
Author: Steven E. Sanderson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0804720215

In this innovative synthesis and reconstruction of the role of trade in Latin American development, the author asks what have been the political terms of trade in Latin America, and why have they differed so much from the multilateral and national trade politics of the advanced capitalist countries, especially the United States? He shows, in great detail, how a new conceptual approach to this question can help us to understand why, and with what limits, Latin America now seems ready to accept the mantle of free trade. This book is a unique attempt to link some of the most provocative hypotheses from the literatures of international trade, development, regional economic history, and resource management to national politics in Latin America. It takes a fresh look at old academic questions, critiques the received knowledge on trade, and offers some new data, documents, and indexes. To the standard literature on Latin American trade, the author adds insights and information from other literatures - resource conservation, poverty alleviation, and national development strategies, to name a few. The current trend toward looking at constraints and possibilities in the trade system is reshaped to ask familiar questions in a concrete, empirical way. What changes in development design come from external shock, and under what conditions? Does the pressure of the international system actually force Latin American countries to alter their rates and kinds of natural resource exploitation? Can a political course of export promotion address the debt crisis effectively? Are the multilateral trade negotiations a useful format for Latin American trade and development problems? And, finally, can we sayanything with authority about Latin America as a region?