以拉美过去20年的发展模式为例，全球竞争沉重打击了该地区的许多工业，并在某些领先行业中孕育了令人瞩目的生产力提升，但这些成果依然只局限于是整体经济的一小部分而已。
Consider, for example, Latin America’s growth model of the last two decades. Global competition has whipped many of the region’s industries into shape and fostered significant productivity gains in advanced sectors, but these gains have remained limited to a narrow segment of the economy.