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- Title
Why did the Portuguese economy stop converging with the OECD? Institutions, politics and innovation.
- Authors
Marques, Pedro
- Abstract
Underlying the crisis affecting peripheral European countries is their structural, longterm loss of competitiveness (Hadjimichalis, 2011, European Urban and Regional Studies, 18: 254-274). This article will focus on the Portuguese case and discuss the institutional constraints that hindered its economy from transitioning towards the production of higher-value added goods and services. It will discuss institutions as the product of a political process laden with power asymmetries and argue that the dominance of a relatively small community at the heart of economic and political life in Portugal has conditioned the development of the economy as a whole. Using this framework, this article will then contribute to the literatures on innovation and technological modernisation and argue that alongside a technical process of catching up there is a political process that can enable or constrain development.
- Subjects
OECD countries; PORTUGUESE economy; ORGANISATION for Economic Co-operation &; Development; ECONOMIC competition; ECONOMIC geography; TWENTY-first century
- Publication
Journal of Economic Geography, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 5, p1009
- ISSN
1468-2702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jeg/lbv012