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Regional trade and growth in Asia and Latin America: the inportance of productive complementarity by Renato Baumann, published by CEPAL. This document argues that the recent Asian experience with integrated productive structures presents Latin America with both a challenge…

Mansueto Almeida mantém um blog dedico aos debates do desenvolvimento local, politica econômica e crescimento, com espaço crescente às discussões sobre política industrial no Brasil – visite: http://mansueto.wordpress.com/

The article “América Latina: problemas y desafíos del financiamiento de la infraestructura“, by Patricio Rozas, was published in the CEPAL Review.The purpose of the article is to “quantify the evolution of the various areas of basic infrastructure in the…

“International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions” by Salvador Barrios, Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven and Gaëtan Nicodème. Using a large international firm-level data set, the paper estimates separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions…

“Tax policies for low-carbon energy” by Gilbert E. Metcalf on VoxEU. Economists often advocate taxes or cap-and-trade schemes to fight pollution, but US policy primarily subsidises clean energy alternatives. This column critiques such subsidies on four counts: they lower…

No need for a panicked fiscal surge by Kenneth Rogoff. For him, output growth is likely to remain tepid compared with a normal post-recession recovery. Europe’s sovereign debt and banking problems are unlikely to disappear soon. In this environment,…

Carta IEDI n. 382, O Brasil no mapa da competitividade Global, publicado em 25/09/2009. A carta mostrou, segundo o relatório do Forúm Econômico Mundial, que o Brasil subiu oito posições no ranking da competitividade global. Porém ainda apresenta uma…

Investimento em perspectiva já são superiores a valores pré-crise, Visão do Desenvolvimento BNDES, por Fernando P. Puga, levanta intenções de projetos de  setores selecionados da indústria, infraestrutura e construção civil, para 2010-2013, comparado com mapeamento de 2008, concluindo que…