The following paper is an attempt to use a simultaneous error correction model to evaluate the impact of trade and exchange rate policies on Brazilian manufactured exports. This kind of model has not been applied before lo analyze the foreign trade of thi

El objetivo de este trabajo es estimar empíricamente las elasticidades respecto de la política cambiaria, para cuatro grupos de productos de exportación: fruta fresca, otras materias primas agrícolas, materias primas minerales (excepto el cobre), y productos manufacturados. Estimando las...

This book is motivated by the emerging rehabilitation of industrial policies as a tool for supporting economic transformation and high rates of growth in developing countries. It argues that underperforming disciples of the Washington Consensus' 'market fundamentalism' should learn and practice...

Las Comisiones y Consejos de Competitividad surgen como un instrumento para aunar los intereses de distintos sectores económicos -en particular el público y el privado- tras las políticas de competitividad. El análisis de los casos de Colombia y República Dominicana y los aprendizajes que...

Peru, along with other Latin American countries, has been receiving large, flows of foreign capital in recent years. This has helped push the rate of economic growth, but on the other hand, has forced the government to implement careful monetary and excha

The specific structure of the book is as follows: chapter one reviews the current situation of Latin America, which historically has been a laggard in economic performance. Chapter two introduces the first principle: the urgency of developing a medium- to long-term strategy for productive...

Latin America was an aggressive practitioner of industrial policies (IP) in the years 1950-1980. During much of the period the general practice was in line with the then mainstream thinking in development economics. Significant growth, industrialization and modernization took place, but serious...

This book is motivated by the emerging rehabilitation of industrial policies as a tool for supporting economic transformation and high rates of growth in developing countries. It argues that underperforming disciples of the Washington Consensus' 'market fundamentalism' should learn and practice...