This chapter analyses the main features of industrial policies carried out in Latin America since 1990. It studies these policies during import substitution industrialization and how they changed after the market-oriented economic reforms. It presents the main national strategies, policy lines...

In February 1931, Getúlio Vargas delivered a well known speech in Belo Horizonte and made then one of his most important public interventions in the Brazilian steel-making debate. This speech made fortune in the historiography, above all for its incisive statement in favor of a national...

The debate over the Brazilian national steel-making problem took shape in the end of the 1900 decade and lasted until 1941, with the creation, by the Brazilian federal government, of the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN – National Steel Company) to build and exploit the Volta Redonda steel...

English abstract: During the Convertibility period (1991-2001) large firms concentrated a great proportion of the industrial sector activity in Argentina, especially foreign firms, which had an important participation. These large firms were responsible for a considerable part of the industrial...

Portuguese Abstract: Em fevereiro de 1931, Getúlio Vargas proferiu em Belo Horizonte um conhecido discurso e fez então uma de suas mais importantes intervenções públicas no debate siderúrgico. Esse discurso fez fortuna na historiografia, sobretudo pela sua manifestação incisiva em favor...

El propósito de este documento es analizar el proceso de desindustrialización experimentado por el sector productivo en Venezuela, a través de tres modelos productivos. Si bien el fenómeno se observa en el conjunto del sector y su vinculación a la renta petrolera, la contracción en la...

The process of industrialization by import substitutions in Uruguay has shown special characteristics in the Latin-American context, given its early beginning and its rapid conclusion. Additionally, this period has presented the biggest economic growth in the Uruguayan history, where significant...