Upgrading to compete : global value chains, clusters, and SMEs in Latin America /

Upgrading to compete : global value chains, clusters, and SMEs in Latin America / Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti, editors. - Washington, D.C. : [Cambridge, MA] : Inter-American Development Bank ; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, c2006. - xv, 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Clusters and value chains in Latin America: in search of an integrated approach / Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti. Pt. 1. Upgrading in clusters and value chains in natural-resource-intensive sectors. The development of the dairy cluster in Boaco and Chontales, Nicaragua / Ner Artola and Mario Davide Parrilli -- Upgrading without exclusion: lessons from SMEs in fresh fruit producing clusters in Brazil / Racquel Gomes -- The salmon farming and processing cluster in southern Chile / Claudio Maggi Campos. Pt. 2. Upgrading in clusters and value chains in furniture, metalworking, and software sectors. The Segusino cluster: boom and bust in furniture exports / Eduardo Zepeda Miramontes -- Local production and innovation systems in Brazil: the metalworking cluster in Espâirito Santo / Arlindo Villaschi Filho, Josâe Eduardo Cassiolato, and Helena Lastres -- Value chains and software clusters in Mexico / Clemente Ruiz Durán. Pt. 3. Upgrading in clusters and value chains: methodological approaches in measurement and policy support. Upgrading in international trade: methods and evidence from selected sectors in Latin America / Alessia Amighini -- Upgrading in global value chains: lessons from Latin American clusters / Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti, and Elisa Giuliani -- Supporting enterprise upgradings in clusters and value chains in Latin America / Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti.

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Small business--Latin America.
Small business--Growth--Latin America--Case studies.
Industrial clusters--Latin America.
Competition--Latin America--Case studies.
Industrial productivity--Latin America.

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