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Trying to stay ahead of the curve in Chile's economic development: exploring a way out of the middle-income trap through pragmatic export development

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  • Alfonso Dingemans

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type="main" xml:id="dpr12166-abs-0001"> Underneath impressive growth levels, the Chilean economy displays signs of being caught in a middle-income trap. It has been unable to improve its productivity, increase the added value of its exports or upgrade its value chain. Its economy cannot compete either with low-wage countries or highly productive, innovative countries. Its export strategy based on export promotion seems to have outlived its usefulness. It achieved remarkable quantitative success, but must now attend qualitative attributes. Instead of regarding market-driven export promotion and state-led export development as substitutes, this article proposes to view them as alternatives in different stages of development. To choose the appropriate time, more attention should be given to non-traditional, structural indicators, like export sophistication and political-institutional capabilities.

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  • Alfonso Dingemans, 2016. "Trying to stay ahead of the curve in Chile's economic development: exploring a way out of the middle-income trap through pragmatic export development," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 34(5), pages 643-669, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devpol:v:34:y:2016:i:5:p:643-669
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    1. Coniglio, Nicola D. & Vurchio, Davide & Cantore, Nicola & Clara, Michele, 2021. "On the evolution of comparative advantage: Path-dependent versus path-defying changes," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 133(C).
    2. Janusz Heller & Rafal Warzala, 2018. "Is Poland in a middle income trap? A theoretical and empirical analysis," Ekonomia i Prawo, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika, vol. 17(4), pages 367-381, December.

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