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The Industrial Policy Reference Resource is a bibliography of key South African and international references on industrial policy and related subjects. It was developed with financial assistance from the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) and the Department for International Development (DFID).
Our concern in this paper is with firm-specific industrial policy. When R&D subsidies or taxes are differentiated among firms, the question arises as to which…
- Authors Pedro Luis Pita Barros & Tore Nilssen
- Year 1998
- Organisation Scandinavian Journal of Economics
- Publisher Blackwell Publishers
The theory of strategic trade policy yields ambiguous recommendations for assistance to exporting firms in oligopolistic industries. However, some writers have suggested that investment subsidies…
- Authors Dermot Leahy & J. Peter Neary
- Year 2001
- Organisation University College Dublin
- Publisher CEPR
This paper studies the size and number of industrial clusters that will arise in a multi-country world in which one sector has a propensity to…
- Authors Victor D Norman & Anthony J Venables
- Year 2001
- Organisation UK ESRC
- Publisher CEPR
Chinese industrial sector energy-efficiency policy has gone through a number of distinct phases since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. An initial period…
- Authors Lynn Price, Ernst Worrell and J Sinton
- Year 2001
- Organisation University of California
- Publisher Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
U.S. industry consumes approximately 37% of the nations energy to produce 24% of the nations GDP. Increasingly, society is confronted with the challenge of moving…
- Authors Ernst Worrell, Nathan Martin Lynn Price and Michael Ruth
- Year 2002
- Organisation University of California
- Publisher Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Energy Foundations China Sustainable Energy Program (CSEP) has undertaken a major project investigating fiscal and tax policy options for stimulating energy efficiency and renewable…
- Authors Lynn Price, Christina Galitsky, Jonathan Sinton, Ernst Worrell & Wina Graus
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of California
- Publisher Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
About 37% of the primary energy consumed both in the U.S. and globally is used by the industrial sector. A variety of energy efficiency policies…
- Authors Christina Galitsky, Lynn Price & Ernst Worrell
- Year 2004
- Organisation University of California
- Publisher Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
This paper is a commentary which addresses the key issues in the South African automotive industry. The paper discusses the success of the motor industry…
- Authors Frank Flatters
- Year 2002
- Organisation TIPS/NEDLAC
This document presents the proposed South African Biofuels Industrial Draft Strategy, outlining Government approach to addressing policy, regulations and incentives. Internationally, biofuels are growing, due…
- Authors Department of Minerals and Energy
- Year 2006
- Organisation Department of Minerals and Energy
- Publisher n/a
Local production of pharmaceuticals in developing countries may be seen as helping to stimulate industrial policy and/or as stimulating pharmaceutical access to needed medicines. However,…
- Authors Warren A Kaplan & Richard Laing
- Year 2005
- Organisation HNP-The World Bank
- Publisher IBRD/The World Bank
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Offsets or industrial participation have become an increasingly important part of arms procurement, with the promise of economic benefits often being an important justification of…
- Authors P Dunne and Richard Haines
- Year 2001
- Organisation MUBS
- Publisher MUBS
The purpose of this paper is to highlight a number of issues that impede sub-Saharan Africa's endeavour to achieve a higher degree of industrialization, with…
- Authors Kandeh Yumkella & Jebamalai Vinanchiarachi
- Year 2001
- Organisation UNIDO/CSAE
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
South Africa is a developing country that currently has no obligation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol. Moreover,…
- Authors Mark Howells and John A. Laitner
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of Cape Town
- Publisher ERC-UCT
The present study is aimed at assisting African countries to formulate concrete proposals related to market access for non-agricultural commodities. Accordingly, we will endeavour to…
- Authors Hakim Ben Hammouda, Stephen Karingi, Romain Perez and Mustapha Sadni-Jallab
- Year 2006
- Organisation Economic Commission for Africa
- Publisher UNDP