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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) A pesar de haber aplicado reformas estructurales de fondo en los últimos años, los países centroamericanos no han podido alcanzar un crecimiento vigoroso y estable. En este trabajo se trata de determinar si la falta de innovación y de adopción de...
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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se tratan las fallas de coordinación, su pertinencia para los países en desarrollo y las circunstancias en las que se producen; se propone que los conglomerados se pueden considerar como aglomeraciones de empresas y organizaciones en...
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In spite of deep structural reforms, Central American countries have failed to experience rapid and stable growth in recent years. This paper explores whether and to what extent we can consider lack of innovation and technology adoption as a main reason for this disappointing experience. The...
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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se analizan las intervenciones microeconómicas usadas para complementar las reformas del Consenso de Washington en América Latina. Se sostiene que la clase de intervenciones que se estilan actualmente en la mayoría de los países...
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Industrial agglomerations or `clusters` arise in the presence of industry-specific and local externalities, also called Marshallian externalities. The standard argument is that such externalities may justify a policy of infant-industry protection to allow and encourage clusters to emerge. This...
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There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an `innovation shortfall,` usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (RD) compared with some high-innovation countries. The usual reaction to this perceived problem is...
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This paper examines the evolution of productive development policies in Latin America in the last half century, with an emphasis on the post-reform period. The paper begins with a review of the import-substitution era and goes on to describe and make a preliminary assessment of the meaning and...
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This paper discusses coordination failures, their relevance to developing countries, and the circumstances under which they occur, arguing that that clusters can be seen as agglomerations of firms and organizations in related economic activities among which coordination failures are likely to...
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This paper examines the microeconomic interventions used to complement Washington Consensus reforms in Latin America. It maintains that the kind of interventions currently in vogue in most countries lack a sound theoretical and empirical foundation or are applied in a manner likely to prove...
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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) Existe la idea corriente de que la baja productividad o un nivel bajo de crecimiento se deben a lo que cabría describir de `insuficiencia de innovación`, que usualmente se identifica como un nivel de inversión en investigación y desarrollo inferior...
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