Technological changes and industrial dynamics in Latin America

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Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2007

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Structural change and productivity growth, 20 years later: old problems, new opportunities

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Mining in Latin America in the late 1990s

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Structural change and productivity growth 20 years later: old problems, new opportunities. Summary

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Structural reforms, productivity and technological change in Latin America

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Development of technological capabilities in an extremely volatile economy. The industrial sector in Argentina

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Changes in the distribution of income and the New Economic Model in Colombia

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Market failure and technological policy

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Structural changes and productivity in Latin American industry, 1970-1996

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Technological change and opportunities for development as a moving target

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Structural change and domestic technological capabilities

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Urban transport planning in a context of demographic, social, economic and technological change

Transport planning necessarily takes into account more than just the immediate time-frame. In the case of urban transport, planning needs to come up with solutions in regard to infrastructure which is expensive and may have a useful life extending over several decades. Therefore, planning must take note of economic, technological, social and demographic changes that influence trips undertaken.The purpose of this article is to explore some of the trends that may well be observed in upcoming decades. The article arrives at the conclusion that, in a period of considerable change and uncertainty, failure to take heed of recent trends may result in the construction of infrastructure that is not always the most appropriate and, what is more, that urban development militates against the efficient operation of public transport and, as a result, is likely to jeopardize the sustainability of cities in the long term.

Technological capacity-building in unstable settings: Manufacturing firms in Argentina and Brazil

From the 1970s onward, the macroeconomic context in Argentina and Brazil was characterized by drastic economic changes and instability. Numerous studies have documented the generally negative effect of this environment on the innovation capacities of the manufacturing sector. This paper, however, analyses the possible emergence of new innovation capacities in the period, bringing two important phenomena to light. First, a quite substantial number of firms, even in unstable settings, redoubled their innovation efforts. Second, these firms are mainly found in a small group of sectors associated with the countries’ static advantages or in sectors favoured by specific sectoral regimes. The findings, although exploratory, are a contribution to the debate on the development of innovative capacities in unstable macroeconomic contexts and the ability of sectors associated with the two countries’ static advantages to generate spaces of innovation and value creation.