Introduction The Middle-income Trap: A Puzzle from Different Perspectives
Chapter 1 Post-China Boom Development: Policy Priorities for Latin America in the Way Out of the Middle-income Trap
1.China's Slowdown and Its Impact on Latin America
2.Innovation as the Way Out of the MIT
3.Rebuilding the Sino-Latin American Economic Partnership
4.Conclusions
Chapter 2 The Lack of Large Local Enterprises as an Important Explanation for the Middle-income Trap in Latin America
1.Main Hypothesis
2.The Chinese Case
3.Literature Review
4.The Technological Backwardness of Latin America
5.Methodology
6.Final Considerations
Chapter 3 Free Trade Agreements as Mechanisms of Wide-ranging and Multi-layered Cooperation: China and the Deepening of Relations with Chile
1.Theorizing the Political Economy of Trade Agreement and International Influence
2.Comparative Analysis
3.Discussion
4.Conclusions
Chapter 4 Mercosur and China: Partnerships, Challenges and Opportunities
1.A Brief History of Mercosur
2.Mercosur, China and the Middle-income Trap
3.Political Economy of China-Mercosur Ties
4.An Agenda for a New Mercosur-China Partnership
5.Conclusions
Chapter 5 China-Mexico FTA: Overcoming Trade Barriers to Escape the Mid-die-income Trap
1.Under the Shadow of the TPP
2.Model and Data
3.Is There a Way Out from the Middle-income Trap？
4.Conclusions
Chapter 6 The Multimexicans in China
1.Models of Internationalization of the MNE
2.Minicases of Multimexicans
3.Discussion and Conclusions
Chapter 7 Strategies for the Construction and Internationalization of Chinese Brands Aimed to the Latin American Market
1.Perception about Chinese Brands and Presence in Latin America
2.Brand Building Strategies or Brand Internationalization Strategies？
3.Conclusions
Chapter 8 Chinese Creative Cities as a Path to Escape of the Middle-income Trap
1.The Creative Economy and the Creative Cities
2.The Creative Economy as a Gear for Development
3.Creative Economy and Creative Cities in China
4.Conclusions
Chapter 9 The China's International Cooperation, a Pathway to Escape the Middle-income Trap in Latin America？
1.Some Basic Concepts of International Cooperation for Development （ICD）
2.China's International Cooperation
3.China-Latin America Cooperation
4.Conclusions
Chapter 10 Chinese Funding for Development in Latin America: Geopolitical Approach and New Opportunities for Escape of the Middle-income Trap
1.The Position of China in the Conceptualization of Financial Aid
2.The Actors of Chinese Financing for Development