Un plan simple

Política industrial bien entendida, sin necesidad de levantar viejas banderas.

Leemos este interesante párrafo de unos de los últimos trabajos de Dani Rodrik:

Let me end with one word on industrial policy, since there is much opposition to (and confusion on) this kind of policy intervention. What I understand by “industrial policy” is not an effort by the government to select particular sectors and subsidize them through a range of instruments (directed credit, subsidies, tax incentives, and so on). The critics of industrial policy are correct when they argue that governments do not have adequate knowledge to pick “winners.” As discussed in Rodrik (2004), industrial policy is more appropriately conceived as a process whereby the state and the private sector jointly arrive at diagnoses about the sources of blockage in new economic activities and propose solutions to them. Industrial policy requires the
government to take an ex-ante stand neither on the activities to be promoted nor on the instruments to be deployed. It simply requires it to build the public-private institutional arrangements whereby information on profitable activities and useful instruments of intervention can be elicited.

Después leemos los planes chilenos para constituirse en potencia alimentaria global...

Mientras tanto, en Ciudad Gótica... ¿es tan difícil juntar a los distintos actores alrededor de una mesa para elaborar un plan, para definir el rol del Estado, una estrategia de posicionamiento externo, etc?

Para consuelo vil, un par de artículos en los que los propios productores chilenos de alimentos se quejan del TLC con Japón.

PD: Dejo la nómina del Consejo Asesor "Chile Potencia Alimentaria". Si esto camina, habrá que copiarlo...