The impact of China’s rise on Latin-american countries

We review in this paper the expansion of economic relations between China and Latin America Countries (LAC) in the last decade. The large process of Chinese urbanization was the main driver for LAC commodity exports and China became the largest market for export and large supplier of manufactures fo...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Aguiar de Medeiros, Carlos, Vital Paganini Cintra, Maria Rita
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Recursos:EDITORA 34
Repositorio:Revista de Economia Política
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.centrodeeconomiapolitica.org:article/212
Acesso em linha:https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/index.php/journal/article/view/212
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:China
América Latina
Padrões de comércio
complementaridade
concorrência
comércio
Latin America
trade patterns
complementarity
competition
trade
Descrição
Resumo:We review in this paper the expansion of economic relations between China and Latin America Countries (LAC) in the last decade. The large process of Chinese urbanization was the main driver for LAC commodity exports and China became the largest market for export and large supplier of manufactures for many LAC and its contribution for investment and credit has enlarged as well. In this process of restructuring of international division of labor we considered two different effects, a “demand effect” and a “structure effect” and investigated how complementarity and competitive pressures affected trade within region and in LAC according to their different patterns and productive structure.  JEL Classification: O1; O5; F1; F4; F6.