Nov 2005
Author(s): Sturgeon, Timothy J.
This presentation discusses a series of measures and actions to help explain the impact of governance on the behavior of global value chains. The topics include: 1) Supplier-led industrial upgrading…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Sabel, Charles
This presentation discusses developing economies in Latin America as compared to the Toyota Production System (TPS), an integrated socio-technical system, developed by Toyota, that comprises its…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Thee, Kian Wie
This paper discusses the major factors which affect Indonesia's industrial competitiveness, specifically the determinants of its industrial technology development. The work first gives an…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Machinea, José Luis
This presentation discusses trade and production in Latin America and the Caribbean. Included is a discussion of export dynamics and patterns of integration as well as productive development policies…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Castilla, L. Miguel
This presentation comments on Rajah Rasiah's paper Fostering Clusters in the Malaysian Electronics Industry. The document covers a brief summary of the paper's main findings, a series of…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Trajtenberg, Manuel
This presentation on innovation policy development broadens the notion of innovation to include all sorts of "process innovations" and organizational changes. Then it describes innovation…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Weiss, John
Industrial policy was for many years associated in policy discourse with failed interventionist import substitution strategies despite its apparent success in East Asia. Further despite the obvious…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Navajas, Fernando
This presentation comments on Charles Sabel's "Long Term Strategic Policies for Global Competition." The document points out a series of insights, methodologies, and suggestions on…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Sanguinetti, Pablo
This presentation comments on Manuel Trajtenberg¿s paper Innovation Policy for Development. The purpose of that paper includes discussing innovation policy guidelines for developing countries and…
Nov 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Machinea, José Luis;Vera, Cecilia
This paper discusses the series of far-reaching structural reforms that took place in the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990's. This set of reforms generated increases…
Nov 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Thee, Kian Wie
This presentation gives an overview of industrial policy in Indonesia during the past few decades. It also discusses industrial policy, reliance on FDI, and improvement in the ITC sector. This…
Nov 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Weiss, John
The presentation discusses the East Asian Miracle Experience regarding industrial policy and export growth. It commences reviewing the strategic policies for global competition that were implemented…
Nov 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Sabel, Charles
This essay explores the governance mechanisms by which an industrial policy based on Toyota Production System (TPS) principles can learn from, collaborate with and ultimately help transform the…
Nov 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Suominen, Kati;Estevadeordal, Antoni
The purpose of this article is to describe a new dataset on trade integration agreements here, preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) and other international agreements that can be employed to…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
This issue of IDEA looks at why similar policies and reforms produce very different results in a variety of countries. It draws from the 2006 IPES, The Politics of Policies, to examine the actors…
Nov 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fernández, Jorge
This report is based on a limited study done with a questionnaire and interviews with important officers of the Ministries of Education in six Caribbean countries. The study was limited because of…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Téllez, Francisco
The purpose of this study is to explore the various information networks that exist in Latin America and the Caribbean and to evaluate just how useful they have been in education policy design.
Nov 2005
Author(s): Fernández, Jorge
The objective of this effort is to produce a sub-regional exchange that can support the development of a frame of reference for the analysis that needs to be carried out on the topic. Rather than…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
During the Hemispheric Summit that took place in Quebec, Canada, in April 2001, the Inter-American Development Bank presented a set of 22 strategic programs intended to contribute to meeting the…
Nov 2005
Author(s): Molinas, José R.;Pérez-Liñán, Aníbal
Over the last decade, every Paraguayan administration has faced greater political challenges and financial pressures than its predecessor. The result has been a chronic fiscal deficit since 1995.…