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Wednesday, 01 January 2003
Reinventing Industrial Strategy. The role of Government Policy in Building Industrial Competitiveness
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2000
Selective Industrial and Trade Policies in Developng Countires. Theoretical and Empirical Issues
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Tuesday, 01 January 2002
Social Capital and Industrial Transformation
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2005
Reflections on Obstacles to Meaningful Industrial Policy in Developing Countries
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 2006
The Case for Industrial Policy. A Critical Survey
What are the underlying rationales for industrial policy? Does empirical evidence support the use of industrial policy for correcting market failures that plague the process…
- Authors Howard Pack & Kamal Saggi
- Year 2006
- Organisation The World Bank
- Publisher Development Research Group
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Monday, 01 January 2007
Industrial Policy in South Africa. Targets Constraints and Challenges
This paper examines the industrial policy in South Africa, which is Africa's most developed and industrialized economy. Issues relating to the role of industrial policy…
- Authors David Kaplan
- Year 2007
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher n/a
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2005
The Specificities of Finnish Industrial Policy. Challenges and Initiatives at the Turn of the Century
The Finnish experience in the 1990s represents one of the few examples of how knowledge can become the driving force in economic growth and transformation.…
- Authors Pekka Yla-Antilla & Chritopher Palmberg
- Year 2005
- Organisation ETLA - The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
- Publisher ETLA
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Tuesday, 01 January 2002
State and market in Economic Development. Southeast Asian industrial policy in comparative East Asian perspective
This paper offers a nuanced and variegated view of the Southeast Asian economic miracles in comparative East Asian perspective, i.e. by comparing and contrasting the…
- Authors Jomo Kwane Sundaram
- Year 2002
- Organisation University of Malay
- Publisher n/a
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Monday, 01 January 2007
The Emergence of a Research Driven Industrial Policy
The author discusses the reasons that created a wider interest in research as part of industry policy making in Norway in the period between 1963…
- Authors Olav Wicken
- Year 2007
- Organisation University of Oslo
- Publisher TIK
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Tuesday, 01 January 2002
The Regional Innovation Paradox. Innovation Policy and Industrial Policy
This paper explores the regional innovation paradox and its policy implications. The regional innovation paradox refers to the apparent contradiction between the comparatively greater need…
- Authors Christine Oughton, Mikel Landabaso & Kevin Morgan
- Year 2002
- Organisation University of London
- Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Wednesday, 01 January 2003
Industrial Policy and European Integration. Lessons from Experience in Western Europe over the Last 25 years
This paper seeks to draw together the work undertaken for the EU (Fourth Framework Programme) TSER project on Science, Technology and Broad Industrial Policy with…
- Authors Margaret Sharp
- Year 2003
- Organisation University College of London
- Publisher UCL
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 2006
Industrial Policy from a Systems of Innovation Perspective
This paper focuses on the systems-of-innovation (SI) approach and its policy implications. It introduces the topic by briefly reviewing the emergence, development, and diffusion of…
- Authors Charles Edquist & Cristina Chaminade
- Year 2006
- Organisation European Invest ment Bank
- Publisher Economic and Finance Studies Division of the EIB
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 1984
The Political Economy of National Industrial Policy
This paper evaluates the current NIP proposals by first explaining the general economic consequences of the 'protective state' that facilitates market exchange and economic efficiency,…
- Authors Thomas J. Dilorenzo
- Year 1984
- Organisation Cato Institute
- Publisher Cato Institute
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 2006
Industrial Competitiveness of the Auto Parts Industries in Four Large Asia Countries: The Role of Government Policy
Rationalization and stabilization following the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s combined with the expansion and liberalization of regional and global trade to create…
- Authors Richard Doner, Gregory Noble & John Ravehill
- Year 2006
- Organisation The World Bank
- Publisher The World Bank Group
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Wednesday, 01 January 2003
The Asian Industrial Policy Experience: Implications for Latin America
In the policy realm, the orthodox terms of engagement with globalization have been enshrined in the Washington consensus of secure property rights, fiscal discipline, sectorally…
- Authors Marcus Noland & Howard Pack
- Year 2003
- Organisation LAEBA
- Publisher Inter-American Development Bank
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Friday, 01 January 1999
Information Technology and Productivity: Results and Policy Implications of Cross-Country Studies
Technology has long been held to contribute to economic growth through productivity improvement, but early studies of information technology (IT) investments and economic growth found…
- Authors Kenneth L Kraemer & Jason Dedrick
- Year 1999
- Organisation University of California
- Publisher ITR
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Wednesday, 01 January 2003
Pathways to Innovation in Asia's Leading Electronics Exporting Countries: Drivers and Policy Implications
This paper briefly reviews what is new about emerging pathways to innovation in Asian electronics industries. I demonstrate that the role of Asia's leading players…
- Authors Dieter Ernst
- Year 2003
- Organisation East West Center
- Publisher East West Center
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2000
The World Bank's Role in Science and Technology
In continued pursuit of its mandate to help countries reduce poverty and improve living standards through sustainable growth and investment in people, the World Bank…
- Authors Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen
- Year 2000
- Organisation The World Bank
- Publisher The World Bank Group
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Wednesday, 01 January 2003
The Macroeconomic Impacts of Information Technology Transfers: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
The United Nations has made access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) a primary objective for the developing world. Several policies have been implemented to…
- Authors Trisha L. Bezmen and Craig A Depken II
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of Texas
- Publisher n/a
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 2006
Industrial Policy Changes and Firm-level Technological Capability Development in the Context of Late Industrialisation: Evidence from Brazil
This paper seeks to offer an alternative perspective on the issues of changes in policy regime and firm-level technological capability development. The paper draws on…
- Authors Paulo N Figueiredo
- Year 2006
- Organisation University of Sussex
- Publisher Getulio Vargas Foundation/EBAPE
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource