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Climbing the Global Digital Ladder: Latin America’s Inescapable Trial

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  • Alfredo G. A. Valladão

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Latin American economies are facing two historically defining challenges. First, how to cope with the end of the commodities “super-cycle” and the prospect of a long period of low prices for basic natural resources. After all, raw materials production and semi-industrialized goods encompass most of their comparative advantages. Second, and even more exacting, how to adjust to the present disruptive transition from an old to a new global economic and social model. The 20th century industrial organization is progressively losing its dominant position to 21st century “digital” economy, based on permanent innovation, a pervasive use of information and communications technologies (ICT), and a service-packed consumer-driven organization of production. The 800-pound gorilla question is: where does Latin American societies – and for that matter most developing countries – fit in this new era?

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  • Alfredo G. A. Valladão, 2016. "Climbing the Global Digital Ladder: Latin America’s Inescapable Trial," Research papers & Policy papers 1609, Policy Center for the New South.
  • Handle: RePEc:ocp:rpaper:pp-16/09
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