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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).
With the exception of a few countries, the post-independence development of Sub-Saharan Africa has been disappointing. In most countries, the growth of national income has…
- Authors Tenkir Bonger
- Year 1999
- Organisation The International Development Research Centre
- Publisher IDRC/CRDI
This paper traces the evolution of the policy environment in Kenya with specific reference to strategic trade and industrial policies. It examines the role of…
- Authors Gerrishon K. Ikiara, Joshua Olewe-Nyunya and Walter Odhiambo
- Year 2004
- Organisation The International Development Research Centre
- Publisher IDRC/CRDI
It is argued that industrial policy for Eastern Europe is required to reduce the social costs of transition. The proposed industrial policy is based on…
- Authors Subrata Ghatak and Barbara Roberts
- Year 1997
- Organisation University of Leicester
- Publisher Routledge. Tailor and Francis Group
This paper assesses the coherence of industrial policy, competition policy and trade policy in the European Union (EU). This assessment is undertaken from the perspective…
- Authors Dominique Foray, Pauline Rutsaert and Luc Soete
- Year 1995
- Organisation Tinbergen Institute
- Publisher Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
China has actively implemented an industrial policy during the last two decades. However, despite important progress, the overall result is rather disappointing. Should China continue…
- Authors Peter Nolan and Huaichuan Rui
- Year 2004
- Organisation University of Cambridge
- Publisher Routledge. Tailor and Francis Group
During evaluation one should consider what would have happened in the absence of assistance. To produce an assessment of this counter-factual scenario involves considering the…
- Authors Helena Lenihan
- Year 2004
- Organisation University of Limerick
- Publisher Routledge. Tailor and Francis Group
Customs unions represent a form of deep economic integration. The Southern African Customs Union (SACU), comprising four small members - Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland (BLNS)…
- Authors Colin McCarthy and Dirk Hansohm
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of Stellenbosch
- Publisher Tralac
Recent literature on industrial districts and enterprise clusters suggests that the grouping of enterprises into sectoral and geographic clusters gives rise to a certain collective…
- Authors Dorothy McCormick
- Year 1998
- Organisation University of Nairobi
- Publisher Institute of Development Studies
The last decade has seen a revival of regional industrial policy in the Western world. New policies have been built on recent insights into the…
- Authors Arnoud Lagendijk
- Year 1998
- Organisation University of Newcastle
- Publisher European Regional Science Association
Many of the programmes and policies designed by the DTI represent a major departure from the policy framework used by the previous government.The previous government…
- Authors Alan Hirsch and Stephen Hanival
- Year 1998
- Organisation Department of Trade & Industry
- Publisher DTI
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This paper looks at economic reform against the backdrop of lower employment and increasing skill intensity of the economy and a consistently high gini-co-efficent ratio…
- Authors Rashad Cassim
- Year 2004
- Organisation UKZN
- Publisher HSRC Press
This article argues that skills development in South Africa must be aligned to the economic and political imperatives of reducing unemployment and poverty, while fostering…
- Authors Miriam Altman and Marina Mayer
- Year 2005
- Organisation Human Sciences Research Council
- Publisher Routledge: Tailor and Francis Group
The broad industrial strategy followed since the 1920s, even though not consciously framed in those terms, seemed to display three main characteristics. First, it contained…
- Authors A Bezuidenhout
- Year 2002
- Organisation NEDLAC
- Publisher Umanyano Publications
The Government Integrated Manufacturing Strategy identifies competitiveness as its primary focus, and value matrices as the framework within which to assess manufacturing performance. This paper…
- Authors Simon Roberts
- Year 2002
- Organisation TIPS
- Publisher TIPS