What's New in the New Industrial Policy in Latin America?

Abstract

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…The ascendancy of orthodox neoliberal thinking from the late 1970s and onwards put industrial policy as an instrument for economic development in the corner for three decades. However, the global financial crisis and the ramifications of the rise of China as an economic giant have changed the global geopolitical ecology of investment, production and trade so that industrial policy has reappeared as being indispensable and legitimate in the global North and South ( The Economist , ; Devlin & Moguillansky, , Stiglitz, Lin, & Patel, ). Concurrently, global value chain (GVC) perspectives have permeated the research and policy agenda of international economic organizations with the message of “joining global value chains” rather than “building development” by means of industrial policy.…”