This article evaluated the recent changes in the profile and determinants of Brazilian firm's internationalization process. In the '90s, it was not intense, but highly concentrated on a few large domestic companies, and resulted from both strategies: to compensate the low dynamism of the...

This paper evaluates the main determinants of the American Foreign Direct Investment (IDE) flows throughout the recent period. We estimate a gravity model for testing the hypothesis that transnational corporations' decisions concerning IDE are influenced by the sector of activity to which they...

This article evaluated the recent changes in the profile and determinants of Brazilian firm's internationalization process. In the '90s, it was not intense, but highly concentrated on a few large domestic companies, and resulted from both strategies: to compensate the low dynamism of the...

Most analyses of the economic relationship between two countries focus on bilateral trade relations and resource flows. The approach here is different, in that it aims to identify the relative weight of selected partners and their capacity to influence the productive structure in Brazil. Two...

The main objective of this paper is to provide for more and better evidence allowing the examination of Brazil's position within Global Value Chain on leather & footwear Industry. To do so, we analyzed the pattern of international integration in Taiwan and Mexico as remarkable experiences for...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo tiene, por objetivo, analizar las perspectivas de desarrollo que tienen las maquiladoras en Centroamérica, como palanca del crecimiento económico y del desarrollo social de la región. Después de una breve revisión histórica acerca de la situación de...

Most analyses of the economic relationship between two countries focus on bilateral trade relations and resource flows. The approach here is different, in that it aims to identify the relative weight of selected partners and their capacity to influence the productive structure in Brazil. Two...

The main objective of this paper is to provide for more and better evidence allowing the examination of Brazil's position within Global Value Chain on leather & footwear Industry. To do so, we analyzed the pattern of international integration in Taiwan and Mexico as remarkable experiences for...

This Discussion Paper addresses the recent history and dynamics of relations between Brazil and Venezuela from the political-diplomatic, economic-commercial and security and defense dimensions. The study analyses decades of advances and setbacks in bilateral understandings between both countries...

Despite the strong growth of the Latin American foreign trade in the 2000s, the integration of these countries in the global production and trade networks is relatively weak, what largely reflects these countries' specialization on goods intensive in natural resources. In general, the share of...