This paper examines the extent to which the growth of China and India in world markets is affecting the patterns of trade specialization in Latin American (LA) economies. We construct a measure of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) by 3-digit ISIC sector, country, and year. This RCA accounts...

El presente articulo busca examinar diversos aspectos mesoeconomicos y microeconomicos relacionados con la productividad y la competitividad internacional en el contexto del nuevo modelo economico latinoamericano. Estos aspectos contribuyen de manera importante a explicar por que dichas...

Countries differ in terms of technological capabilities and complexity of production structures. According to that, countries may follow different development strategies: one based on extracting rents from abundant endowments, such as labor or natural resources, and the other focused on creating...