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Does enterprise participation in global markets ensure sustainable income growth? Policies have been often designed in the belief that this was the case. Yet, competitiveness and participation in international markets may take very different forms, and benefit developing countries to a remarkably different extent.
This chapter draws on the empirical findings of a project on ‘Clusters, Value Chains and Competitiveness’, carried out for AGORA’ 2000, Italy on behalf of the Micro and SME Division, Department of Sustainable Development (SDS/MSM) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and directed by Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti (see Pietrobelli and Rabellotti, 2005, and 2007). The authors wish to thank the Italian Government Trust Fund for financing the project. Collaboration and comments from Alessandro Bolondi, Carlo Manfredi (AGORA’ 2000), Juan José Llisterri, Claudio Cortellese and Pablo Angelelli (IDB), Elisa Giuliani, Alessia Amighini, José Eduardo Cassiolato, Helena Lastres, Arlindo Villaschi, Raquel S. Gomes, Clemente Ruiz Duran, Eduardo Zepeda Miramontes, Claudio E. Maggi Campos, Ner Artola, Marco Dini, Gianfranco Viesti, Domenico Cersosimo, Manuel Albaladejo, Carlos Guaipatin, Sanjaya Lall, Jorg Meyer-Stamer, Mario Davide Parrilli, Rajah Rasiah, Andrés RodrÃguez-Clare, Fréderic Richard, Giovanni Stumpo, Morris Teubal, are gratefully acknowledged. Preliminary drafts were presented at seminars at IDB inWashington DC and Buenos Aires, UNCTAD, Geneva, IberPYME in Guadalajara, Mexico, CEPAL-UAM Atzcapozalco in Mexico City, Mexico, University of Modena, Italy, EADI at University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, and Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil.
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Pietrobelli, C., Rabellotti, R. (2008). A Sectoral Approach to Policies for Clusters and Value Chains in Latin America. In: Parrilli, M.D., Bianchi, P., Sugden, R. (eds) High Technology, Productivity and Networks. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583726_11
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