Rudolf Buitelaar

Biographic Data

ID2273014
NAMERudolf Buitelaar
GIVEN NAMESRudolf
FAMILY NAMEBuitelaar
SIGNATUREBUITELAAR R
AFFILIATIONSUnited Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX2

  • Maquila, Economic Reform and Corporate Strategies

    Open AccessRudolf Buitelaar, Rudolf M Buitelaar et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2000Cited by: 11References: 2

  • The in-bond assembly industry and technical change

    Rudolf Buitelaar, Rudolf M Buitelaar et al.ARTICLECEPAL review1999Cited by: 4

    This article analyses the export offensive made by Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean countries since the mid-1980s. Notwithstanding the differences between them, in all the countries in question this offensive has been aimed mainly at the United States market, has been stimulated by import tariff privileges and other incentives, and has been based on poorly-paid assembly operations: i.e., it involves the in-bond assembly or “maquila” ind…

  • Manufactured exports from small Latin American economies

    Rudolf Buitelaar, Rudolf M Buitelaar et al.ARTICLECEPAL review1997Cited by: 1

    This article explores the challenges that small, less industrialized Latin American countries face in achieving sustained growth of manufactured exports. The improvement of export performance was one of the aims of the policy reforms adopted since the 1980s in line with the so-called Washington Consensus. The economic environment for manufacturing firms improved significantly, and growth of industrial production and exports was stimulated. Nevert…

  • Extraordinary comparative advantage and long-run growth

    Andre A Hofman, Rudolf Buitelaar et al.ARTICLECEPAL review1994

    The objective of this article is to describe how the transformation of the trade and industrialization regime is taking place in Ecuador and what are the systemic factors which condition the realization of this transformation. A long-run perspective of economic policy and growth in Ecuador (considering the whole of the twentieth century) reveals that growth has been relatively fast compared to other countries in the region, with exports as the dr…

  • The challenge of industrial competitiveness

    Rudolf Buitelaar, Rudolf M Buitelaar et al.ARTICLECEPAL review1993

    Latin American manufacturing industry has undergone various changes in recent years. It has registered a favourable performance as far as exports are concerned, but production and investment have grown only slowly in a context of sluggish recovery of domestic demand and greater foreign competition. Other features are greater specialization in natural resource-based intermediate goods characterized by the importance of economies of scale, relative…

  • The competitiveness of the small economies of the region

    Rudolf Buitelaar, Juan Alberto Fuentes KnightARTICLECEPAL review1991

    This iiriide explores the changes in sources of competitiveness in the exports of small countries to the industrialized market economies between 1978 and 1988

  • Agrarian Transformation and the Rural Labour Market

    Open AccessHermine Weijland, Jan De Groot et al.ARTICLEDevelopment and Change1988References: 8