Although Latin American and Caribbean countries have assigned a high priority to increasing exports in recent years-substantially transforming their economies in the process-export performance in most cases remains deficient. This book investigates why this is so, identifying the policies that...

Having reviewed Brazil's macroeconomic and trade performance during the last decade, the authors evaluate, on the basis of the experience of the 1980s, the threats posed by macroeconomic conditions to the successful completion of the ongoing trade liberalization process in this country. They...