DIGITAL REPOSITORY
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

La liberalización comercial, la desregulación de la actividad económica, la privatización de activos productivos del sector público, así como un manejo mucho más cuidadoso de los grandes agregados macroeconómicos, están causando cambios profundos en el comportamiento de las economías de América Latina. Un mayor "clima" competitivo se está difundiendo ...

El debate regional sobre política industrial se centra hoy en las políticas de fomento de la competitividad en el contexto de economías abiertas. Privilegia el uso de políticas horizontales, se apoya en el mercado y es celoso en la vigilancia de los equilibrios macroeconómicos. Sin embargo, aún adolece de debilidades en el tratamiento de los temas ...

Trade liberalization, deregulation of economic activity, the privatization of public-sector production units and much more careful management of the main macroeconomic aggregates are causing profound changes in the behaviour of the Latin American economies. A more competitive climate is gradually spreading through the countries of the region as ...

The debate in the region on industrial policy is currently centered on policies to promote competitiveness in the context of open economies. It gives priority to the use of horizontal policies, is based on the market, and attaches great importance to the maintenance of macroeconomic balance. It continues to suffer from weaknesses in its treatment of ...

Latin American economies need higher productivity to escape from the middle-income trap. This article analyses the drivers of innovation at the firm level, which is a critical driver of productivity growth. The article estimates a two-stepmodel where firm characteristics affect firm engagement with innovation inputs, and such engagement then generates ...

El presente artículo busca examinar diversos aspectos mesoeconómicos y microeconómicos relacionados con la productividad y la competitividad internacional en el contexto del nuevo modelo económico latinoamericano. Estos aspectos contribuyen de manera importante a explicar por qué dichas variables no han evolucionado satisfactoriamente en los ...

This article seeks to analyse some mesoeconomic and microeconomic aspects related with productivity and international competitiveness in the context of the new Latin American economic model. These aspects go a long way towards explaining why those variables have not evolved satisfactorily in the different countries and sectors of activity, and why a ...

This paper examines the role of structural change as a source of economic growth and institutional and technological change. With the creation of new activities in the economy, significant changes occur in institutions and in the way domestic production capabilities are organized, which alters the ultimate sources of growth in society. This is a ...