Latin America's insertion in the world trade system is entering a period of historical change. Driving that change will be the outcome, or failure, of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations; the increasing regionalisation of trade relations; and the profound liberalisation in Latin...

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...