Introduction

JUAN EDUARDO SANTARCANGELO

The Manufacturing Sector in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Transformations and Challenges in the Industrial Core of Latin America

Palgrave MacMillian

Lugar: Nueva York; Año: 2019; p. 1 - 5

The book seeks, in particular, to provide an exhaustive analysis of the historical evolution of the industrial sector of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico since the import substitution industrialization stage, the economic impacts of the process of deindustrialization in the last quarter of the twentieth century during the rise of neoliberal policies, as well as the main transformations registered during the first decades of the twenty-first century when a reindustrialization process was registered. Also, the book studies the existence (or lack) of structural change in the economy and in the industrial sector given the share of the value added (and employment) of specific industry groups in total value added (and employment), its level of technological development, and the degree of articulation and density of the interindustry relations. The third objective of the book is to analyze the evolution on the degree of external dependence and international integration that the different industrial sectors of the countries have in order to identify the evolution of the industrial profile that has been consolidated in the three most industrial countries of Latin America and the place that the Latin American industry occupies today in the world economy.