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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).
The debate on industrial policy is often counterposed between two truisms. On the one hand, market-based resource allocation is clearly important - it is not…
- Authors Raphael Kaplinsky and Edmund Mhlongo
- Year 1997
- Organisation University of Cape Town and University of Sussex
- Publisher Transformation 34
This paper examines selected policies, programmes and institutions that are central to industrial and trade policy in South Africa. Attention is principally focused on policy…
- Authors David Lewis, Kabelo Reed and Ethel Teljeur
- Year 2004
- Organisation The International Development Research Centre
- Publisher IDRC/CRDI
This report examines the trade and industrial policies currently advocated by the major development agencies. It calls for a shift away from the current emphasis…
- Authors Stephen C Smith
- Year 1991
- Organisation Economic Policy Institute
- Publisher Economic Policy Institute
Encouraging the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is widely seen as being an important plank of industrial policy in developing countries. Concerns that…
- Authors Khalid Nadvi
- Year 1995
- Organisation UNIDO
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
Government is studied as a supporter of science and of the transformation of scientific discoveries into new technology and firm formation. The importance of scientific…
- Authors Gunnar Eliasson
- Year 2000
- Organisation The Royal Institute of Technology
- Publisher Springer
The existence of strong spill-over effects from private R&D increases the potential social contribution of R&D, but may depress the private incentives to undertake it.…
- Authors Lee Branstetter and Mariko Sakakibara
- Year 1997
- Organisation National Bureau of Economic Research
- Publisher Blackwell Publishers
This paper examines the issue of whether harmonising taxes across the traded and non-traded sectors is desirable. Preferential treatment for the traded sector might be…
- Authors Frank Walsh
- Year 1999
- Organisation University of Dublin
- Publisher University College Dublin
Reducing the proportion of state-owned shares (SOSs) in China is a complicated undertaking related to several reform issues, including the strategic reform of the economy…
- Authors Ke Li and Tongliang An
- Year 2004
- Organisation University of Connecticut
- Publisher Blackwell Publishers
Since China promulgated the first explicit industrial policy in 1989, state intervention with respect to business in China has become more industry-oriented. National economic planning…
- Authors Lu Ding
- Year 2000
- Organisation CPB, the National Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
- Publisher n/a
The theory of strategic trade policy highlights differences in the commitment ability of firms and governments as a key motivation for intervention in oligopolistic markets.…
- Authors J Peter Neary and Dermot Leahy
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of Dublin
- Publisher CEPR
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A market economy allocates too few resources to an industry with increasing returns to scale, such as an agglomerated cluster. A subsidy to the cluster…
- Authors Linda Orvedal
- Year 2004
- Organisation Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
- Publisher European Trade Study Group
This paper develops a model of joint determination of trade and industrial policies where the politicians in charge of the government can direct the rents…
- Authors Hadi Salehi Esfahani & Munir Mahmud
- Year 2000
- Organisation University of Illinois
- Publisher SSRN
We empirically evaluate the aggregate welfare effects and structural adjustment for the Spanish economy that would follow from trade liberalization with the European Economic Community.…
- Authors David Roland-Holst, Clemente Polo and Ferran Sancho
- Year 1995
- Organisation Mills College
- Publisher Springer
This report describes trends in Member country policies for industrial development and competitiveness in order to promote economic growth, wealth creation and employment. Government policy…
- Authors OECD
- Year 1998
- Organisation OECD
- Publisher OECD