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Thursday, 01 January 2004
Privatizations in Developing Countries and the Government's Budget Constraint
We study the impact of government's budget constraint on the privatization decision of increasing returns to scale industry. Privatization is associated with prices liberalization, public…
- Authors Emmanuelle Auriol and Pierre Picard
- Year 2004
- Organisation University of Toulouse and University of Manchester
- Publisher SSRN
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Thursday, 01 January 1998
European Industrial Policy as a Non-Tariff Barrier
This article explores the contradictions between the industrial policies of the EU and EU national states and the Single Market program of elimination of NTBs…
- Authors Gilberto Sarfati
- Year 1998
- Organisation EIOP
- Publisher ECSA-A
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Monday, 01 January 2001
The Impact of Industrial Policy on Japan's Trade Specialization
Recent research has demonstrated the possibility of welfare-enhancing industrial policy. This paper analyses the impact of industrial policy on Japan's trade pattern, and explores the…
- Authors Marcus Noland
- Year 2001
- Organisation John Hopkins University
- Publisher John Hopkins University
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Monday, 01 January 2001
Capital/Skills-Intensity and Job Creation: An Analysis of Policy Options
This paper explores how growth and job creation depend on private sector choices concerning how to produce, that is the relative proportions of capital and…
- Authors Michael Samson, Kenneth Mac Quene and Ingrid van Niekerk
- Year 2001
- Organisation TIPS/EPRI/USAID
- Publisher TIPS
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Thursday, 01 January 1998
Policies for Industrial Development and Competitiveness
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 1995
Trade Liberalisation and Industrial Structure in Spain
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2000
The Political Economy of Protectionism and Industrial Policy
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Thursday, 01 January 2004
Industrial Clusters, Asymmetric Information and Industrial Policy
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Wednesday, 01 January 2003
Revenue-Constrained Strategic Trade and Industrial Policy
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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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2000
Prospect of Industrial Policy Regime After WTO
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Thursday, 01 January 2004
Chinese Industrial Policy and the Reduction of State-Owned Shares in China's Listed Companies
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Friday, 01 January 1999
Labour Market Rents and Irish Industrial Policy
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Wednesday, 01 January 1997
Japanese Research Consortia: A Microeconometric Analysis of Industrial Policy
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Saturday, 01 January 2000
Industrial Policy, Competence Blocs and the Role of Science in Economic Development
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Sunday, 01 January 1995
Industrial Clusters and Networks: Case Studies of SME Growth and Innovation
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Tuesday, 01 January 1991
Industrial Policy in Developing Countries: Reconsidering the Real Sources of Export-Led Growth
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Thursday, 01 January 2004
South Africa: Economic Policy-Making and Implementation in Africa: A Study of Strategic Trade and Selective Industrial Policies
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Wednesday, 01 January 1997
Infant Industries and Industrial Policy: A Lesson from South Africa
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Tuesday, 01 January 2002
Manufacturing Competitiveness and Industrial Policy
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Tuesday, 01 January 2002
An Evaluation of Industrial Policy Perspectives in the South African Context
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
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource