Getting Development Right
Structural Transformation, Inclusion, and Sustainability in the Post-Crisis Era
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The Challenge of Productivity-Based Development: Innovation Gaps and Economic Structure in Latin America
In this paper, we analyze how firm-level capabilities and characteristics affect firm innovation activities and innovation outputs in seven Latin American countries in 2016. We include eight innovation activit...
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Introduction: Getting Development Right
The celebratory tone about the emergence of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and the improved growth in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America during the 2000s obscures the reality that, for large parts ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Celtic Tiger: When Deal-Making Trumps Developmentalism
Over the last two decades, the Irish economy has experienced some of the most remarkable turnarounds in development history. Long one of the poorest countries of Western Europe, with a GDP p.c. of 62 % of the ...
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Confronting the Middle Income Trap: Insights from Small Latecomers
Middle income countries have always faced the challenge of how to move from commodity production to more knowledge-intensive activities. The current globalization process is turning this middle income dilemma ...
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China Rising: A Global Transformation?
China is rising. There seems to be little disagreement about this. With economic growth rates hovering around 10 percent per year for the past 30 years, an enormous demand for global resources, and an increasi...
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Policy Space for a Capability-Centered Development Strategy for Latin America
During the last two decades, Latin American countries have pursued an agenda of widespread market liberalization, commonly referred to as the Washington Consensus. These policies have left Latin American econo...
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Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing: What Is to Be Done?
The rapid expansion of offshore outsourcing is the key characteristic of the current process of economic globalization. As production processes become increasingly fragmented across national borders, companies...
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Capturing the Benefits from Offshore Outsourcing in Develo** Countries: The Case for Active Policies
The increasing organization of production chains across national borders offers new opportunities for economic advancement to develo** countries, as they will have a chance to attract foreign direct investme...
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Foreign Direct Investment in the Global Age: New Opportunities for Development?
Globalization is at the heart of economic change in the twenty-first century. Its impact on the future well-being of people in developed and develo** countries has been the subject of much debate and controv...
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High-Tech FDI-Led Growth in Small Latecomers: An Analytical Framework
Development is a process of increasing the production of knowledge-based assets within a country, thus shifting production from primary goods to goods of increasingly higher value. Amsden (2001, 3) defines a k...
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The Development of Knowledge-Based Assets in Ireland
For many countries, a change in the structure of manufacturing production and manufactured exports toward high-tech industries and products reflects a substantial advancement of the country’s knowledge-based a...
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The Tico Tiger That Hasn’t …
TNCs’ most valuable potential contribution to the development of a small latecomer lies in the advancement of the country’s knowledge-based assets. Through linkages and spillovers, high-tech FDI can expand the...
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The Rise of the Celtic Tiger
During the 1960s, real GDP per capita in Ireland increased by 38 percent; during the Seventies it rose by 35 percent; in the course of the Eighties it grew by 28 percent, but in the Nineties it skyrocketed by ...
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From Coffee to Computers: High-Tech FDI in Costa Rica
As the so-called Switzerland of Latin America Costa Rica has long held a special position among Latin American countries, as it successfully combined economic growth and social advancement. Unlike the other Ce...
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Lessons from Ireland and Costa Rica
As the twenty-first century begins, a large and growing number of develo** (and developed) countries are competing fiercely for foreign direct investment. They hope that FDI will provide a major impetus for ...
