The purpose of this report is to provide a preliminary overview of the 'key' trends, challenges and opportunities facing the leather industry of South Africa.…
This paper searches for the origins of the relatively successful performance of Hoogovens, the only sizeable steel firm in the Netherlands. It is suggested that…
In May 2001, the State Government of Orissa organized a review workshop in Bhubaneswar to discuss prospects for growth and industrial policy, following the undertaking…
Indonesia's competitiveness declined in the second half of the 1990s relative to other countries in Southeast and South Asia. The country now faces the real…
Industrial Policy in the traditional sense was reactive, bureaucratic and demand side based. By contrast, modern industrial policy requires pro-active intervention and changes. Consequently, it…
This paper analyses the interplay of policy reform and entrepreneurship in a model where investment decisions and policy outcomes are both subject to uncertainty. The…
AuthorsMurat Iyigun and Dani Rodrik
Year2004
OrganisationHarvard University and University of Colorado
The manufacturing sector has traditionally been the primary focus of both the trade and industrial policy literature and the national departments of trade and industry…
The complexity of the system of incentives and uncertainty surrounding the nature of relationships between policy variables in South Africa's motor industry tend to discourage…
AuthorsTrevor Bell
Year2003
OrganisationThe National Union of Metal workers of South Africa (NUMSA)
It is well established that there are collective economic gains to be realised from local industrial agglomerations. These gains arise from labour market pooling, knowledge…
It is well established that there are collective economic gains to be realised from local industrial agglomerations. These gains arise from labour market pooling, knowledge…
That the growth performance of South African manufacturing industry has deteriorated markedly since the mid- 1970s, and that a major improvement in the performance of…
Developments in the automotive industry have received considerable positive publicity over the last few years. Firstly, and most importantly, this is a consequence of rapid…
The 1990s witnessed the emergence of a considerable body of research making a case for placing more emphasis on interfirm co-operation, networks, regional collaboration and…
This paper has a discrete, bounded and limited focus. It is about the role of government in facilitating cluster development in developing country contexts. The…
AuthorsMike Morris, Glen Robbins and Justin Barnes
South Africa's current industrial policy has a two level focus: sectoral and spatial. The former (addressed here) deals with improving the performance and competitiveness of…
Although the Constitution envisages an economic system for Lao PDR based on market mechanisms, a review of the government's overall approach to industrial planning concludes…
Through a study of the plastics sector in South Africa, the article critically examines the pro-globalisation position that greater openness yields gains from exports and…
The paper attempts to document the various kinds of industrial and technology policy that have commonly be put in practice and then to provide indicators…
AuthorsRakesh Mohan
Year1998
OrganisationNational Council of Applied Economic Research
Catching-up of East German productivity to West German levels has halted completely since the mid l990s. The remaining productivity gap cannot be attributed to an…