CEPAL Review no.71

Revista de la CEPAL no.71

The current situation of small and medium-sized industrial enterprises in Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados and St. Lucia

Abstract This study analyses the period 1990 to 1996 of the current situation of the small and medium-sized industrial enterprises (SMIs) in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and St. Lucia. It describes the evolution of SMIs, the country experiences regarding linkages amongst firms and the policy instruments aimed at promoting SMIs and their impact. The small enterprises have well established support programmes and they are considered to be dependent on direct government support through subsidized financing and other mechanisms and are essentially inward looking in terms of development. The medium…

Towards a theory of the small firm: theoretical aspects and some policy implications

Abstract There is a need to shed light on the growing role played by the small firm in local, national and global dynamic competition in order to challenge this deeply rooted lack of interest. The fact that firms have been organized successfully in ways that differ from the fordist paradigm has put the certainties, on which generations of economists have constructed their own analytical and interpretative grids and influenced industrial policy, in crisis. Thus, in the face of empirical evidence, it must be admitted that the case of the small firm can no longer be considered as a transitory phe…

El desempeño industrial argentino más allá de la sustitución de importaciones

Con la colaboración de: Luis Beccaria, Roberto Bisang, Roberto Bouzas, Francisco Gatto, Georgina Gómez, Graciela Gutman, Daniel Heymann, Gustavo Lugones, Fernando Porta, Rodrigo Rabetino y Marisa Wierny. Este libro es el resultado de la investigación sobre el caso argentino realizado en el marco del Programa de Estudio sobre La Industria de América Latina ante la Globalización Económica, en su Fase III, del Departamento Nacional de Planeación de Colombia coordinado por Luis Jorge Garay. Capítulo 1: Una evaluación del desempeño de la industria argentina en los años noventa Carlos E. Bonvecchi …