The article discusses the implications of the establishment of global value chains on policymaking. The approach of value chains has emphasized the implications of trade policy derived from the diffusion of new production model. In the area of industrial policy, the focus of value chains...

Production fragmentation - dispersion of the individual steps involved in the production of a particular good across different countries and several companies - means that the fabrication of an increasingly large number of goods is taking place in global value chains, with different patterns of...

The main objective of this paper is to provide for more and better evidence allowing the examination of Brazil's position within Global Value Chain on leather & footwear Industry. To do so, we analyzed the pattern of international integration in Taiwan and Mexico as remarkable experiences for...

The strengthening of the commitment to export assistance and the establishment of comprehensive programs to foster export activities of firms are part of public policies in almost all developed and developing countries. In recent decades, not only the amount devoted by governments to these...

The purpose of this research is to examine the international insertion of Brazilian banking system, in comparison with the South Korean and Mexican experiences. Since the second half of the 1990s, these countries deepened the financial integration between their economies and international...

This paper analyzes the logic of expansion of multinational corporations and their determinants in order to understand the dynamics and the main features of global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) from the eighties. This is an analytical review of historical and theoretical approach that...

This article evaluated the recent changes in the profile and determinants of Brazilian firm's internationalization process. In the '90s, it was not intense, but highly concentrated on a few large domestic companies, and resulted from both strategies: to compensate the low dynamism of the...

This paper analyzes the evolution of technological development in Brazil, considering the impacts of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Law, introduced in 1996, in Brazilian enterprises` patenting. Firstly, the paper presents the main debates about intellectual property rights. Then, it...

Over the past decades, Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) have assumed an important role in international relations, in particular with regard to the foreign direct investment (FDI). This group of economies, albeit under different intensities, ceased to be mere recipients of FDI to become...

The purpose of this study is to build and estimate a model to assess the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Latin America and also for a larger group of emerging market countries. Based on a panel data model for seven Latin American Countries over the period of 1984-2001, we...