Theory and Practice of Industrial Policy
Theory and Practice of Industrial Policy

Author: Wilson Peres

Publisher: United Nations Publications

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 9789211216974

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The publication attempts to define the concept of industrial policy, to review certain relevant historical experiences, and to examine the current state of the art of industrial policy in Latin America. First section presents introductory notes regarding the importance of manufacturing in the development process. The second section defines the concept of industrial policy and its scope. The third section discusses industrial policy’s raison d’être. The fourth section provides an overview of the principal features of industrial policy at various historical times and places. The fifth section focuses on industrial policy in Latin America, presenting a balance of progresses and obstacles, and examining measures to overcome implementation problems, while the sixth section concludes.

Reciprocity in the FTAA: the roles of market access, institutions and negotiating capacity (Working Paper SITI = Documento de Trabajo IECI n. 2)
Reciprocity in the FTAA: the roles of market access, institutions and negotiating capacity (Working Paper SITI = Documento de Trabajo IECI n. 2)

Author: Julio J. Nogués

Publisher: BID-INTAL

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13: 9507381554

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The benefits of the FTAA to Latin American countries will materialize through two channels: improved access to the region's markets, and enhanced growth prospects through the strengthening of basic economic institutions. Furthermore, the importance of these negotiations is heightened by the fact that they are taking place against the failure of the Uruguay Round to liberalize agricultural trade, and the lack of progress in the ongoing negotiations of the Doha Round, Under these conditions, for Latin American countries who are net exporters of different bundles of agricultural products, the FTAA could be the best opportunity for accelerating growth in the region. The analysis includes a discussion of these issues stressing the fact that in order for the reciprocical exchange of concessions agreed in the FTAA to result in an important liberalization of intra-regional trade, Latin American countries will have to negotiate with greater firmness than in the past.

The Struggle for Democracy in Chile
The Struggle for Democracy in Chile

Author: Paul W. Drake

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780803266001

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This revised edition of The Struggle for Democracy in Chile should prove even more useful to the student of Latin American history and politics than the original. It updates important background information on the evolution of Chile?s military dictatorship in the 1970s and its erosion in the 1980s. Brian Loveman, an authority on contemporary Chilean politics, offers a comprehensive examination of the transition to civilian government in Chile from 1990 to 1994 in a substantial new chapter. Loveman chronicles the rise of the Concertaci¢n coalition, the strained relations between General Pinochet?s military and President Alwyn?s civilian government, and the roles of the National Women?s Service (SERNAM), the Catholic Church, and the indigenous peoples of Chile. All eleven essays by the leading authorities on the Pinochet regime from the earlier edition have been retained. The bibliography has been updated and the index improved. ø The Struggle for Democracy in Chile remains the first and foremost book on the transition over the last twenty-five years from dictatorship to democracy in Chile.