In this article, we seek to rectify the absence of political analysis characterizing most literature on innovation and development. Although existing research is careful to note the lack of any single recipe or model of innovation, most scholars identify a range of institutions and policies...

Rationalization and stabilization following the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s combined with the expansion and liberalization of regional and global trade to create significant parts industries in China, Indonesia, and the Republic of Korea. Conventional policies of stabilization and...

O retorno do Estado desenvolvimentista no Brasil suscita revelações históricas e contrastes comparativos. A principal diferença contemporânea é que o desenvolvimentismo e a política industrial estão sendo definidos e implementados em um contexto político muito mais aberto e...

The last 20 years were a period of major political, economic, social, and institutional reform in Brazil. In the first half of the 1990s, reformers opened the economy to foreign trade and both direct and portfolio investment, sold off a number of large and traditional state-owned enterprises,...

Over the past 30 years, democratic freedoms and competitive electoral processes have taken hold as never before in Latin America. How Democracy Works takes a detailed look, from an institutional perspective, at each of the main actors on the policymaking stage in Latin America, emphasizing the...

This report examines the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean after more than a decade of political and economic reform. A wide variety of examples and case studies are presented in an analytical framework to help explain why policies that work in certain institutional...

Os últimos 20 anos foram, como se sabe, um período de grandes transformaçõeseconômicas, políticas, institucionais e sociais no Brasil. Desde a primeira metade dosanos 1990 a economia foi progressivamente aberta, tanto ao comércio quanto aoinvestimento estrangeiro, diversas grandes...