On the Nature and Endings of Latin America’s Industrial Policies

Andres Alvarez (AA) & Carlos Andres Brando (CAB): From around 1930 to the early 1980s most middle-sized and large Latin American economies underwent rapid industrial growth and transformation —entailing economy-wide structural change. However successful the processes of industrialization, the fact is that at the outset of the twenty-first century these industrial sectors had lost both dynamism and the widespread support theretofore provided by public policy in fields as diverse as trade and e...