This presentation on innovation policy development broadens the notion of innovation to include all sorts of "process innovations" and organizational changes. Then it describes innovation and growth in a historical perspective to conclude that innovation policies for development should include...

This paper discusses the series of far-reaching structural reforms that took place in the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990's. This set of reforms generated increases in foreign trade (particularly exports) and higher foreign direct investment. However, the growth path...

This presentation comments on John Weiss' Export Growth and Industrial Policy: Lesson from the East Asian Miracle Experience. The presentation took place at the 2005 LAEBA Second Annual Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 28-29 November. The paper focuses on whether industrial policy is still...

This paper discusses Brazil's transportation infrastructure policy implications. This sector is crucial for the competitive success of an agricultural enterprise or of the entire agricultural sector. The Brazilian Government has proposed investment in large projects to improve transportation...

This presentation discusses the current state of regional trade in South Asia, specifically the South Asia Association for Economic Cooperation (SAARC). It then discusses the main obstacles for expansion of regional trade in South Asia, specifically poor infrastructure and trade costs resulting...

This paper discusses the significant potential for the SME sector to increase its contribution to East Asia's regional development through greater participation in global value chains while risks from multiple market failures can be mitigated by proper policy measures. The authors also discuss...

This presentation comments on Thee Kian Wie "Technology and Indonesia's Industrial Competitiveness." It includes an overview of the paper and an analysis of policy recommendations, putting forward a series of concerns. Then, the author makes remarks on Fabio's Brazilian Industrial Policy. This...

This paper discusses the major factors which affect Indonesia's industrial competitiveness, specifically the determinants of its industrial technology development. The work first gives an overview of Indonesia's industrial development before and after the Asian economic crisis. Then it discusses...

Industrial policy was for many years associated in policy discourse with failed interventionist import substitution strategies despite its apparent success in East Asia. Further despite the obvious point that in the real world 'markets fail' and enterprises impinge on each other, so that...