ABSTRACT
The book aims at offering a comparative, multi-perspective analysis of the different, at times parallel, at times with varying degrees of interdependence, macroeconomic and structural adjustments in the two continents against the backdrop of important processes of regional integration. Its reading offers a multifaceted appreciation of the reality emerging from the mixing up of longer run tendencies deepened by the brute force of the financial and then industrial crisis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part I|74 pages
The two continents' macroeconomic scenarios
chapter 2|15 pages
Regional integration and growth
An empirical assessment for Latin American countries
chapter 4|12 pages
Aggregate threshold effects in the generation of human capital
The cases of Latin America and Europe
chapter 5|12 pages
International interdependence and macroeconomic transmission
Europe and Latin America
part Part II|117 pages
Sectors, technologies and trade
chapter 6|14 pages
Latin American exports to the European Union
Opportunities for Latin American development1
chapter 8|16 pages
Economic integration and mobility versus persistence of technological specialization patterns
Some evidence from the European Union and Latin American experiences
chapter 9|13 pages
Latin America
Relative performance, structural change and technological capabilities in historical perspective1
chapter 12|14 pages
The Mexican economy in 1960–2010
From import substitution and state-led industrialization to export-led slow growth
part Part III|72 pages
Third millennium industries
chapter 14|14 pages
Software and information services
Transnational corporations' strategies in Latin America and Europe1
chapter 15|13 pages
New roles for the agribusiness sectors
Technological trajectories and institutional settings
