This paper analyzes export performance in Brazil, discussing the roles played by export diversification, productivity enhancements, policy, and natural resource endowments. First, we provide a brief account of Brazil’s recent export performance and analyze changes in the competitiveness of...

Although Latin American and Caribbean countries have assigned a high priority to increasing exports in recent years-substantially transforming their economies in the process-export performance in most cases remains deficient. This book investigates why this is so, identifying the policies that...