Titlebook: Can Latin America Compete?; Confronting the Chal Jerry Haar (professor of management and internatio Book 2008 Jerry Haar and John Price 200

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Closing the Technology Gap,echnology is a key factor determining a firm’s, a city’s, a region’s, or a nation’s competitiveness in the ever more knowledge-based global economy. Technology is knowledge embedded in labor and capital used to produce goods and services.

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Fostering Innovation: Technological Innovation in Urban Clusters,nt. While this is well known to managers, regulators, and researchers in developed countries, such is not the case in most of Latin America, as reflected by investment levels, policies, and practices. Interest in innovation, the knowledge of how to manage it, and support for it are all generally low to nonexistent.

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Not All Infrastructure Is Created Equally: Learning from the Best Practices and Stunning Failures oreformers, the private sector did not become the major financier of the sector or replace the rapidly falling public investment in infrastructure, although there was rarely a call for private sector participation in projects in Latin America that went unanswered.

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on, labour, judicial, and administrative reforms that remain incomplete. This book identifies ten factors that most influence the competitiveness of Latin American nations and will shape their economic futures.978-0-230-61214-3978-0-230-61047-7

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Labor Reform: Undercompetitive Economies and Unprotected Workforce, dampened employment growth, increasing the ranks of the jobless and those employed outside the law. These informal workers, who represent close to half of the region’s workforce, exist on the margins of the economy and society, often with few legal and social protections.