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Transnational Alliances and Development Policy in Latin America: Nontraditional Export Promotion in Costa Rica

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Mary A. Clark
Mary A. Clark*
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Tulane University
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In the 1980s, students and practitioners of the political economy of development in Latin America became enthralled with East Asia's spectacular economic performance. Researchers wrote cross-regional comparisons trying to discover where Latin America had gone wrong and how it could catch up to the “four dragons,” meaning South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong (see Deyo 1987; Gereffi and Wyman 1990; Haggard 1990). This quest to determine the key ingredients of East Asia's growth held particular policy relevance as many Latin American countries sought to escape from the “lost decade.” The best-known attempts to describe the political basis for East Asia's successful turn toward policies stressing export-led growth have emphasized two factors: initiative of state leadership and highly capable technocracies insulated from societal interference (Haggard 1990; Wade 1990). Among Latin America countries, Chile, the region's premier exporter, seemed to confirm these ideas.

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Research Article
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , 1997 , pp. 71 - 98
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Copyright © 1997 by the University of Texas Press

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Financial support for this research was provided by the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Organization of American States, and the MacArthur Foundation. The Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas at the Universidad de Costa Rica provided institutional support. The author would also like to thank Rachel Schurman, Elizabeth Katz, Barbara Stallings, Bradford Barham, Michael Foley, Mark Gasiorowski, Jeff Cason, Naeyoung Lee, Gregory White, William Reno, and several anonymous LARR reviewers for their useful comments on previous drafts.

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