Download or read book Upgrading to Compete written by Carlo Pietrobelli and published by David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can local markets and clusters represent a powerful alternative to global markets? Do transnational corporations and global buyers enhance or undermine local firms' upgrading and learning? Using original empirical evidence from several clusters in Latin America, Upgrading to Compete shows that both local and global dimensions matter at once.