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China's emergence has raised pointed questions about the future of manufacturing in Latin America. This paper looks at …, productivity, scale and the government's role, all work together to make China a formidable competitor. The importance of this …
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plausibly exogenous variation in manufacturing imports from China. We find that the so-called 'China shock' largely slows down … decreases by 0.49 per cent on average for each additional per cent of manufacturing imports from China. It highlights a …
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After analysing the evolution of exports from the large Latin American countries over the last decade, and examining on a case by case basis the determinants for each country's performance, this study concludes that competitiveness in the manufacturing sectors of most countries in the region...
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Changes in comparative advantage should reflect changes in factor endowment, but increasingly, changes in trade policies also affect a region's trade performance. Based on the arguments in Balassa's stages of comparative advantage thesis, this paper looks at the performance of manufacture...
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Changes in comparative advantage should reflect changes in factor endowment, but increasingly, changes in trade policies also affect a region's trade performance. Based on the arguments in Balassa's stages of comparative advantage thesis, this paper looks at the performance of manufacture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119483
Manufacturing in Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) faces severe competitive stresses as it integrates into the global economy. It is not, on the whole, coping well. Though it was the first region in the developing world - in the post-war era - to liberalize on international trade and...
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China's global expansion has led to concerns amongst other developing country exporters that they will be displaced by … which countries face from China, which is then applied to empirical data on US imports from China and 18 Latin American … countries. It also presents new estimates of the impact of China on the value of Latin American exports to the US over the past …
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Analizamos la evolución del PIB por habitante en varias áreas del mundo durante el período 2000-2010, teniendo en cuenta la relación positiva entre industria y desarrollo y el efecto negativo del excesivo endeudamiento exterior. Constatamos que el conjunto de la OCDE y América Latina son...
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We analyse the evolution of Manufacturing Value-Added per inhabitant in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries during the period 1980-2002, and present a comparison with more industrialized countries. We find that very few Latin American countries have experienced an increase in that variable...
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