Christian Volpe Martincus

Jeffry Frieden

Jorge Cornick

Thomas Reardon

Kun Li

Ernesto H. Stein

Juan S. Blyde

Mauricio Mesquita Moreira

Federico Merchán

Danielle Trachtenberg

Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc

Rzavan Vlaicu

Víctor Zuluaga

Tomás Bril-Mascarenhas

Sergio Ardila

Piero Ghezzi

Thirty years after the region embarked on large-scale liberalization, trade policy could have been expected to become all but irrelevant. Instead, a mismatch between expectations and what could realistically be delivered set the stage for much of the disappointment, skepticism, and fatigue regarding trade policy in the region, particularly in the early 2000s. By setting the bar unrealistically high, governments and analysts made trade policies an easy target for special interests that were hurt by liberalization and for those ideologically opposed to free trade. The most immediate victims were the more tangible growth and welfare gains, whose relevance was lost amid the noise of grandiose visions.

What Global Integration Can Do for Latin America and the Caribbean

Trading Promises for Results

Janet M. Eisenhauer

Thomas L. Cox

A Quarterly Database for the Analysis of the U.S. Dairy Sector, 1970-1990

Eduardo Fernández-Arias

Ernesto Stein

Ernesto Dal Bó

Gonzalo Rivas

Productive development policies (PDPs) are notoriously hard. They involve a daunting level of technical detail, require public-private collaboration, are in constant danger of capture, and demand time consistency hard to achieve in a politically volatile region. Nevertheless, the potential of PDPs to revitalize the regionâs economic performance and spur productivity growth cannot be ignored. This book takes an in-depth look at 17 cases involving productive development agencies from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay, identifying key features of institutional design and agency-level practices that make success more likely in this difficult policy arena. Careful study of these experiences might help successful productive development policies gain currency across the region. The cases in this book should not be seen as the exceptions that prove the rule of lackluster PDP performance, but rather as examples that demonstrate the rule can be broken.

Building Capabilities for Productive Development

Jorge Cornick

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