From Natural Resources to the Knowledge Economy : Trade and Job Quality

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction and Summary -- What Should Countries Rich in Natural Resources Do to Grow Faster and Improve the Quality of Their Jobs? -- Answering Old and New Concerns about Trade -- Lessons from Successful Natural Resource-Rich Countries: Play to Your Strengths -- Building New Areas of Comparative Advantage -- Are the New Jobs Good Jobs? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Comparative Advantage, Diversification, and Intra- Industry Trade: Determinants and Consequences -- New Trade Theories, New Endowments, and New Patterns of Trade -- New Factor Endowments: Industrial Clusters, Logistics Costs, and ICT and Knowledge -- Comparative Advantage: Facts from LAC -- The Regional Average since the Early 1980s -- Are Traditional Endowments Destiny? -- Trade and Endowments -- Econometric Evidence -- Export Diversification and IIT: Where Are We, and Does It Matter? -- Export Diversification and IIT in LAC -- Summary of Findings about Comparative Advantage, Diversification, and IIT -- Notes -- It's Not Just What You Produce, But How: Lessons from Comparative History -- The Lesson from History: Play to Your Strengths -- Total Factor Productivity Growth and Development -- Knowledge and Natural Resources: A Proven Recipe for Growth -- Two Final Concerns -- Why Was Latin America's Experience So Disappointing? -- Distribution -- Education and Technical Capacity -- Disruptive Industrialization in the Postwar Period -- Are the Successful Models Replicable? The Death of Distance, Fragmentation, and First- Mover Advantages -- Notes -- Recent LAC Experiences: The Role of Knowledge and Institutions -- Chile's Agricultural Performance: The Case of Fresh Fruits Exports -- Econometric Results -- Net Rates of Protection -- Research and Development in Chilean Agriculture.