Alejandro Rodríguez

Elisa Giuliani

Carlo Pietrobelli

Alessandro Maffioli

Franco Boneu

David Alfaro Serrano

Gabriel Casaburi

Victoria Castillo

Lucas Figal Garone

David Giuliodori

Andrés Matta

Lucía Pittaluga

Do cluster development programs work? Do they fundamentally encourage the essential inter-firm linkages and coordination? Do they lead to innovation and productivity, enterprise development, larger employment, and export growth, and if so, after how long? Do other firms benefit from these programs? This book offers insight into quantitative methods that help answer these questions. Cluster development is a form of modern industrial policy that is spreading across the world to help exploit the externalities emerging from geographical agglomeration and inter-firm coordination. Therefore, rigorous impact evaluations are necessary because they help policymakers understand better ways to design future programs and provide accountability for public resources. The chapters argue that enterprise clusters and the programs to support them are diverse and multidimensional processes that require a variety of instruments to be fully understood and assessed. The book as a whole gathers various methodological essays and quantitative tests of complementary tools and approaches, emphasizing their usefulness and effectiveness in coordination with one another. Most importantly, it asserts that policy evaluation is crucial, in particular when it comes to cluster development programs, to ensure the best use of public resources, the accountability of beneficiaries, and most of all to feed the necessary learning to improve the design and implementation of public policies for enterprise development.

Methods and Practices

The Impact Evaluation of Cluster Development Programs

Ignacy Sachs

Renato Caporali

Maria Clara Couto Soares

Rajah Rasiah

Bernardo Kosacoff

José Eduardo Cassiolato

Gonzalo Rivas

Carlos Ramos

Eduardo Kaplan Barbosa

Khalid Nadvi

Mariano Francisco Laplane

Bertha K. Becker

Maria Lussieu da Silva

Ana Christina Maia

Cristiane Garcez

Helena M. M. Lastres

Rodrigo Arocena

Ana Carolina Machado Arroio

Ramiro Sanhueza

Cristina Lemos

Claudio Maggi Campos

Alexandre Guerra de Araujo

Marcelo G. Pessoa de Matos

Claudia Stevenson

Maria do Perpétuo Socorro Rodrigues Chaves

Roberto de Groote

Walsey de Assis Magalhães

Ennio Canddotti

Timothy J. Sturgeon

Ariela Diniz Cordeiro

Gabriela Dutrénit

Valdênia Apolinário

Rodrigo Saldias

Eduardo Bitran Colodro

Maria Gabriela Podcameni

Cristian M. González Urrutia

Judith Sutz

O conjunto dos capítulos deste trabalho aponta e elabora importantes alternativas de política capazes de retomar e sustentar novas formas desenvolvimento apropriadas, coesas e duradouras. Ao mesmo tempo, instiga e mobiliza reflexões sobre a relevância, tanto de aprendermos e acumularmos conhecimentos com experiências passadas, como de sermos capazes de vislumbrar novas possibilidades, modelos e instrumentos de políticas.

Sustentabilidade social e ambiental

A nova geração de políticas de desenvolvimento produtivo

Inter-American Development Bank

Matteo Grazzi

This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international linkages - highlighting the differences in firm characteristics, behaviors, and strategies. By showcasing this remarkable heterogeneity, this collection challenges regional policymakers to look beyond one-size-fits-all solutions and create balanced policy mixes tailored to distinct firm needs. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license.

The Engine of Economic Development

Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Carlo Pietrobelli

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