This volume discusses the development of the Mexican manufacturing sector during the NAFTA era. This book pursues several objectives simultaneously. Firstly, it gives continuity to and revitalizes the structuralist economic perspective and debate proposed by Latin American development theory....

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Structural heterogeneity in Mexican manufacturing industry, 1994-2008 -- Chapter 2: Market concentration and structural change: The food, beverages and tobacco industry -- Chapter 3: The transformation of the textile and apparel sector after NAFTA -- Chapter 4: The...

This article analyzes the contribution of technology-intensive activities to the increase in aggregate labor productivity in the industrial sector for a set of 28 countries, dividing 150 industrial classes into four groups based on their degree of technology content (High, Medium-High,...