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Are Central American export specialization patterns "sticky"?
(2003-04)
In the national innovation systems of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD);, countries' export performance is considered to be the measure of their international competitiveness. The national ...
Transnationalization and integration of production in Latin America
(1995-12)
Trade among the ALADI countries has grown with exceptional vigour so far in the 1990s, especially in the branches of metal products, machinery and equipment, chemical products, and foodstuffs, beverages and tobacco. In ...
Comparative advantages and the exploitation of environmental resources
(1999-08)
This article analyses five types of international trade based on the competitive advantages afforded to under-developed countries by their environmental resources endowment. First of all, specialization of such countries ...
Structural reforms, technological gaps and economic development: a Latin American perspective
(ECLAC, 2002-08)
This paper explores the impact recent structural reforms have had on macro-to-micro linkages, as well as upon the pattern of production specialization, the entry and exit of firms during the adjustment process, and the ...
Production fragmentation, foreign trade and structural complexity: a comparative analysis of Brazil and Mexico
(2021-04-30)
Starting in the 1980s, Brazil and Mexico adopted diverging trade and production strategies, which had significant effects on their respective production and trade structures. This study investigates how the two countries’ ...
Premature deindustrialization in Latin America
(ECLAC, 2016-06)
Defining deindustrialization as a situation of falling share of manufacturing employment and value added in total employment and GDP, respectively, and a rising specialization in primary goods, this paper provides an ...
Sectors and businesses facing COVID-19: Emergency and reactivation
(2020-07-02)
This Special Report “Sectors and businesses facing COVID-19: emergency and reactivation” is the fourth in a series by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on the evolution and impacts of the ...