Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/54125 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2011/48
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This chapter analyses the main features of industrial policies carried out in Latin America since 1990. It studies these policies during import substitution industrialization and how they changed after the market-oriented economic reforms. It presents the main national strategies, policy lines and instruments designed in the region, as well as the return of sectoral policies to the public agenda. Special attention is paid to Brazilian industrial policies because they represent the most advanced experience in the region. The paper underscores that progress in policy design has out paced improvements in policy implementation and evaluation, and discusses the importance of sector targeting, endogenous capabilities, institutions, and political will for industrial policy.
Subjects: 
industrial policy
clusters
policy implementation
Latin America
Brazil
implementation failures
JEL: 
L52
N66
O25
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-415-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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