Fear of China: Is There a Future for Manufacturing in Latin America?

Moreira, Maurício Mesquita

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.11.001

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“…They have used various methods, including inspection of trade data (e.g. Lall et al 2005;Mesquita Moreira, 2007;Kaplinsky and Morris, 2008), revealed comparative advantage calculations (Lederman et al, 2008), gravity models (e.g. Greenaway et al, 2008;Hanson and Robertson, 2010) and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models (e.g.…”

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Has China de-industrialised other developing countries?

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Mayer

2011

Rev World Econ

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China's opening to trade is interpreted as a shift in world average factor endowments, which altered the comparative advantage of other countries. In the rest of the world on average, this shift lowered the share of labour-intensive manufacturing in the sum of labour-intensive manufacturing and primary output by 1 to 3.5 percentage points, and the corresponding export share by 1.5 to 5 points. The de-industrialising effect varied among countries, and was clearest in East Asia. It was significant, but not big enough to be a serious threat to growth or equity in most other developing countries. AcknowledgementsMauro Caselli provided extensive and excellent research assistance in the compilation and analysis of the data. Alicia Rapin also helped with the data. Valuable advice was received from referees. Useful comments were provided by seminar and conference audiences at Oxford, Sussex, Nottingham, Manchester, Geneva and WIDER. The opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the institutions to which they are affiliated.

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Has China de-industrialised other developing countries?

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Mayer

2011

Rev World Econ

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“…One of these is Mexico's institutional weakness vis‐à‐vis deepened reliance on TNCs and FDI in export‐led development. Another factor is the change of the global system of production in which nation states, such as those in Asia, have strategically leveraged their industries to take advantage of global value‐chain restructuring (Mesquita Moreira, 2007), while TNCs have taken advantage of their freedom to relocate activities regionally and internationally. Jessop and Sum (2000) contrast this glocalization process with strategic ‘glurbanization’, a process whereby cities enhance their place‐based competitive advantage in the world economy to procure and retain FDI.…”

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Declining Suburbs in Europe and Latin America

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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Suburban shrinkage, understood as a degenerative urban process stemming from the demise of the Fordist mode of urbanism, is generally manifested in a decline in population, industry and employment. It is also intimately linked to the global restructuring of industrial organization associated with the rise of the post-Fordist mode of urbanism and, more recently, the thrust of Asian industrialization. Framed in the discourse of industrial urbanism, this article examines the first ring of industrial suburbs that developed around large cities in their most rapid Fordist urbanization phase. These industrial suburbs, although they were formed at different times, are today experiencing specific mutations and undergoing profound restructuring on account of their particular spatial position between the central area and the expanding peripheries of the post-Fordist metropolis. This article describes and compares suburban decline in two European cities (Glasgow and Paris) and two Latin American Cities (São Paulo, Brazil and Guadalajara, Mexico), as different instances of places asymmetrically and fragmentarily integrated into the geography of globalization.

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“…This failure of central planning was evident in all countries that we now know as the BRIIC group of emerging economies. In Latin America import substitution strategies failed and fossilized industries that were protected from (international) competition lost market shares both at home and abroad (Taylor, 1998, Mesquita Moreiraa 2007. The leap-forward strategy that had prioritized heavy industry had completely failed to deliver the desired catching up with the industrialized economies, not only in the major communist economies (China and the former USSR), but also in India and other noncommunist countries (Lin, 2009).…”

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