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Trade integration and export diversification: El Salvador’s trade with the United States and Central America
(2018-12-17)
This article conducts a comparative analysis of the diversification of El Salvador’s baskets of exports to the United States and Central America. It uses the most detailed level of disaggregation available and organizes ...
Export diversification and growth in emerging economies
(2008-08)
This paper develops and tests a model of growth that emphasizesthe introduction of new exports as the main source of growth in countriesthat are well within the global technology frontier and depend for growthon adapting ...
The role of productive and technological capabilities in export dynamics in developing countries
(2021-04-30)
Productive and technological capabilities are major engines of export. But how they affect export behaviour at the microeconomic level is less clear and many questions remain. This paper empirically investigates their role ...
Creative industries in the Caribbean: a new road for diversification and export growth
(ECLAC, 2012-07)
Creative industries have become a new engine of growth and development in the world economy. This dynamic sector, which ranges from traditional arts to multimedia, has been an important driver of innovation and productivity ...
Free trade agreements in Latin America since 1990: an evaluation of export diversification
(2012-12)
This article explores the previously uncontested claim that the free trade agreements (FTAs) signed by Latin American countries -the cornerstone of their international economic integration strategies since 1990- have led ...
Policies for economic diversification
(2005-12)
This article begins by showing that not all developing countries
concentrate their exports in products which make intensive use of natural
resources or cheap labour, and that those which also export some products
typical ...
Technological dimensions of economic diversification and development in the Caribbean with specific reference to the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
(ECLAC, 1999-06-11)
Summary
Most Caribbean countries have failed to attract or retain international investment on any large scale in their industrial sectors. This document advances 18 reasons for this, among them - limited access to technology, ...