Industrial Policy in Guatemala: A Case of Policy Inertia under Changing Paradigms

Mario Cuevas, Sigfrido Lée and Bismarck Pineda

No 3027, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper reviews productive development policies (PDPs) in Guatemala, focusing on the alleged justification of existing programs in terms of the market or government failures they are meant to address. An effort is made to identify how the different instruments complement or contradict each other and how these situations came to be. The main hypothesis throughout the paper is that there are non-trivial contradictions within the set of PDPs and its implementation framework that render policy instruments ineffective or inefficient, with evidence from several case studies. On this basis and in light of international practices, the study develops a broad set of recommendations for improving the design and implementation of Guatemala's PDPs.

Keywords: IDB-WP-169 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O25 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11
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