Political Economy of Developing Countries

Paper Topic:

Developing economies often do not have public institutions that can provide long-term credit, export
assistance, leadership training and other productivity enhancing measures to SMEs in order to increase
their competitiveness on the world markets. How can these countries learn from the Irish example in
order to boost their export sector and productivity?

PROBLEM : How to diversify and upgrade exports of X country - drawing from lessons from Irish
example -

Professor recommended using Chile example – talk to Tomas about this