TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pietrobelli,Carlo
AU  - Rabellotti,Roberta
TI  - Upgrading to compete: global value chains, clusters, and SMEs in Latin America 
SN  - 1597820326
U1  - 338.642098 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Inter-American Development Bank, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
KW  - Competencia
KW  - Concentración industrial
KW  - Microempresas
KW  - Productividad industrial
KW  - Administración
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas; 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 Espírito Santo / Arlindo Villaschi Filho, José 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
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