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NAFTA and the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
This volume discusses the development of the Mexican manufacturing sector during the NAFTA era. This book pursues several objectives simultaneously. Firstly, it gives continuity to and revitalizes the structuralist economic perspective and debate proposed by Latin American development theory. Secondly, it analyzes the trend of structural heterogeneity in Mexico from 1994-2008 using the manufacturing sector as a case study. Lastly, it uses methodologies established by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to provide an in-depth statistical evaluation of the effects of economic liberalization on structural change, labor productivity, production concentration, and dynamic competitiveness in the main industries of the sector: food, beverages, and tobacco; textiles and apparel; chemistry; electromechanics. Providing historical context for the evolution of Mexico’s economy after trade liberalization, this volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers of industrial economics, economic development, Latin-American studies, developing studies, international economics, international relations, political science, and economic geography.
Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico
Analyzing dress, costume, and fashion in Puerto Rico, this collection utilizes case studies that explore national identity and nation formation as well as past and current practices in Puerto Rican visual culture. As the last Spanish-speaking colony with an ever-growing diaspora, Puerto Rico presents a unique opportunity to study national identity and nation formation through dress and fashion. In Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico, José Blanco F. and Raúl J. Vázquez López combine new material and previously published essays that review diverse aspects of visual culture in Puerto Rico. The book is divided into three sections that define and redefine the terms "dress", "...
Effects of the Washington Consensus Reforms on the Industrial Structure
Spanish Abstract: Este artículo tiene por objetivo comparar las transformaciones estructurales ocurridas en el sector industrial de India y México, después de reformas económicas similares, inspiradas en el Consenso de Washington. La evolución del indicador de productividad laboral, calculado para 90 categorías, en el caso de México, en el periodo 1994-2007, y de 123 categorías para la India, de 1998 a 2007, corrobora un aumento de las disparidades entre las industrias, así como una concentración de la modernización en un número reducido de actividades. Los resultados muestran un proceso relativo de reestructuración y modernización productiva en la India, con un cierto rezago temporal, y una evolución más cuestionable en México, debido a una excesiva especialización dependiente de la dinámica de las empresas multinacionales. Por último, una metodología diferencial estructural confirma la hipótesis, según la cual, en ninguno de los dos casos, existe un cambio estructural impulsor de los niveles de eficiencia agregados.
Is it Possible to Upgrade in Global Value Chains? A Comparison Between Industrial Policy in Mexico and the Asian Experience
This article analyzes the industrial policy implemented in Mexico as a result of the trade liberalization, highlighting its role in the configuration of an industrial specialization pattern that revolved around inbond assembly activities and whose main feature was manufactured goods with low value added and little local technological knowledge. By contrast, a synthesis of public measures whit brought about the upgrading of manufacturing activities in Taiwan gives rise to a debate about the relevance of the State as a promoter of productive development and questions the possibilities of developing countries to move up within international manufacturing linkages.
Constructed Movements
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At once theoretically sophisticated and poignantly written, Constructed Movements centers stories from communities in Mexico profoundly affected by emigration to the United States to show how migration extracts resources along racial lines. Ragini Shah chronicles how three interrelated dynamics--the maldistribution of public resources, the exploitation of migrant labor, and the US immigration enforcement regime--entrench the necessity of migration as a strategy for survival in Mexico. She also highlights the alternative visions elaborated by migrant community organizations that seek to end the conditions that force migration. Recognizing that reform without recompense will never right an unjust migratory system, Shah concludes with a forceful call for the US and Mexican governments to make abolitionist investments and reparative compensation to directly counteract this legacy of extraction.
Evaluation of International Competitiveness and Insertion In Global Value Chains
Spanish Abstract: Este artículo estudia el desempeño comercial de los 12 principales países exportadores de bienes industriales en el período 2004-2013, analizando tanto la pretendida asociación existente entre la productividad laboral y la competitividad externa como el rol de las industrias altamente tecnológicas en el éxito exportador. La aplicación de la metodología de Wang, Wei y Zhu (2018), a partir del uso de matrices input-output globales para el caso del comercio de Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) y de China, muestra el mejor posicionamiento de EE.UU. en la Cadena Gobal de Valor (CGV), y ejemplifica la relevancia de las nuevas dinámicas productivas globales para la evaluación del comercio internacional a nivel sectorial.
América Latina: su arquitectura financiera
La Cátedra Maestro Ricardo Torres Gaitán surge para fortalecer los trabajos del Seminario de Teoría del Desarrollo. Esta memoria que incluye la conferencia de José Ocampo y los trabajos elaborados por Óscar Ugarteche Galarza, Patricia Rodríguez López y Raúl Vázquez, académicos del IIEc, quienes desarrollan y enriquecen el conocimiento sobre los temas discutidos. José Antonio Ocampo revisa las discusiones y acciones en torno de la reforma del sistema monetario y financiero internacional durante la crisis reciente, en el marco del debate mundial sobre la necesidad de contar con una arquitectura monetaria y financiera adecuada para el mundo de hoy, concentrándose en tres ejes: a) la...
National Union Catalog
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CEPAL Review
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