This paper evaluates the impact of Mexican trade and productive integration processes during the last 20 years. It finds evidence that growing per capita income in Mexico is directly related to its "trade opening", but is inversely related to the growth of its manufacturing export industry....

Existing explanations of China's dramatic economic growth since 1978 have neglected a key piece of the China Puzzle, that is, China since 1978 has been a typical “East Asian Developmental State (EADS)” with a long socialist legacy that regularly deploys industrial and science & technology...

Adopting a two-sector overlapping generations model, this paper studies the influence of asymmetric technology absorption and producers' lobbying on the path of technological change. The underlying assumption of the paper is that, in its formulation of industrial policy, the government is open...