Comparing the experience of East Asia and Latin America since the mid-1970s, Elson identifies the key internal factors common to each region which have allowed East Asia to take advantage of the trade, financial, and technological impact of a more globalized economy to support its development,...

Can Latin America compete? Many argue that the macroeconomic and trade reforms of the 1990s merely put a handsome coat of paint over education, labour, judicial, and administrative reforms that remain incomplete. This book identifies ten factors that most influence the competitiveness of Latin...

Die Regionalisierungstendenzen des Lateinamerikahandels haben seit Beginn der 90er Jahre neuen Auftrieb bekommen. In Amerika gibt es derzeit vier Wirtschaftsräume: NAFTA (North American Free Trade Association; Nordamerika, Mexiko), MERCOSUR (Mercado Comun en el Cono Sur; Argentinien, Brasilien,...