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Services as drivers of economic growth. Is there an opportunity for Latin America countries?

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  • Lorenzo Cassini
  • Veronica Robert

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Considering the recent improvements in services innovation and productivity performance, the aim of the article is to analyze if they can act as a new growth driver for Latin American countries. For that, we review the literature on services and structural change in two stages. First, we apply a bibliometric methodology to identify the main trends in literature. Second, we analyze in-depth a smaller set of papers in order to extract the main lessons regarding three aspects of our question: (i) services and productivity growth, (ii) new opportunities for innovation in services and (iii) relation between services and manufacturing through servitization process. The results show that productivity and innovation growth in services are concentrated in only a few branches. Besides this, services performance depends on their links with manufacturing activities. We conclude that the current Latin American servitization process clausure opportunities for developing instead of opening them.

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  • Lorenzo Cassini & Veronica Robert, 2020. "Services as drivers of economic growth. Is there an opportunity for Latin America countries?," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(7), pages 762-783, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ecinnt:v:29:y:2020:i:7:p:762-783
    DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2020.1719636
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    1. Chen, Guo & Liu, Yishuang & Gao, Qizheng & Zhang, Jianqing, 2023. "Does regional services development enhance manufacturing firm productivity? A manufacturing servitization perspective," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 451-466.
    2. Cassini, Lorenzo, 2023. "Path-dependent productive specialization: Should prematurely deindustrialized countries shift to a KIBS export-led strategy?," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 199-209.
    3. Antonioli, Davide & Berardino, Claudio Di & Onesti, Gianni, 2023. "The intersectoral linkages and manufacturing productivity growth in Italian regions using the I-O approach," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 120-133.

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