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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).
This report considers the obstacles to the practice of meaningful industrial policy by the governments of developing countries and also considers their impact on the…
- Authors Larry E. Westphal
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
This paper is an exploration of the social capital needs of industrial development. 'Social capital' attracts considerable attention in socio-political analysis and we are beginning…
- Authors Sanjaya Lall
- Year 2002
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
This paper analyses the case for selective industrial and trade policies in Africa, drawing upon the lessons of East Asia. It reviews the theoretical arguments…
- Authors Sanjaya Lall
- Year 2000
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
The paper reviews the nature of current globalization and the growing divergence in competitive performance in the developing world. It considers the case for industrial…
- Authors Sanjaya Lall
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
Africa's industrial performance has been poor and its ability to industrialize successfully is under increasing question. This paper argues that industrialization remains vital to African…
- Authors Sanjaya Lall & Erika Kraemer-Mbula
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
Globalization is a pervasive influence on industrialization in the developing world. As the embodiment of technological progress and more open markets, it offers huge productive…
- Authors Sanjaya Lall
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
This paper considers a case study of the challenges posed to interventionist economic policy-making by the existence and operation of the free trade institutions. The…
- Authors Jim Stanford
- Year 2003
- Organisation Canadian Auto Workers
- Publisher n/a
This paper explores export performance in South Africa over the past 50 years, and concludes that a lagging process of structural transformation is part of…
- Authors Ricardo Hausmann and Bailey Klinger
- Year 2006
- Organisation Harvard University
- Publisher The President and the Fellows of Harvard College
The main patterns of industrial development over the past decade are reviewed together with the broad thrusts of industrial policy. Despite major restructuring of industry…
- Authors Simon Roberts
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of Witwatersrand
- Publisher United Nations Publication
The debate about industrial policy occasioned by the East Asian financial crisis is the latest chapter in an ongoing discussion about the effectiveness of selective…
- Authors Howard Pack
- Year 2000
- Organisation The World Bank
- Publisher Oxford University Press
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The discussion on this paper is based on the development of a framework for conducting industrial policy that minimizes the risk that it will generate…
- Authors Dani Rodrik
- Year 2004
- Organisation UNIDO
- Publisher n/a
In the last decade, few countries have figured prominently as cases of late-late developers that achieved worldwide success with their Information Technology (IT) industries. This…
- Authors Dan Breznitz
- Year 2006
- Organisation Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Publisher The Berkeley Electronic Press
This paper summarizes the case for open economy industrial policy (OEIP) in Latin America and the Caribbean and responds to potential objections, namely, endogeneity, selection…
- Authors Andrew Schrank & Marcus Kurtz
- Year 2006
- Organisation LSE/ISA
- Publisher n/a
Prior to East Asia's financial meltdown in the second half of 1997, there appeared the prospect of an uneasy consensus on the East Asian 'miracle'…
- Authors Ashoka Mody
- Year 1999
- Organisation The World Bank