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 Industrial Policy Action Plan reflects work that has been undertaken by the dti and other government departments and is mostly ready for implementation.…
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…
This article discusses the convenience of adopting industrial policy in Brazil. We argue that the success of East Asian countries, usually explained by industrial policy,…
AuthorsMauricio Canedo-Pinheiro, Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira, Samuel De Abreu Pessoa & Luiz Guilherme Schymura
In order to contribute towards government's goals for 2014 'and beyond ' the National Industrial Policy Framework (NIPF) vision for South Africa's industrialisation trajectory is:…
The EIU has compiled a cross-sectoral database of firms that are pursuing innovations within the environmental domain. This investigation analyses a subset of this database…
In the last decade, few countries have figured prominently as cases of late-late developers that achieved worldwide success with their Information Technology (IT) industries. This…
AuthorsDan Breznitz
Year2006
OrganisationSam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
This paper explores export performance in South Africa over the past 50 years, and concludes that a lagging process of structural transformation is part of…
AuthorsRicardo Hausmann and Bailey Klinger
Year2006
OrganisationHarvard University
PublisherThe President and the Fellows of Harvard College
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…
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…
AuthorsCharles Edquist & Cristina Chaminade
Year2006
OrganisationEuropean Invest ment Bank
PublisherEconomic and Finance Studies Division of the EIB
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…
AuthorsRichard Doner, Gregory Noble & John Ravehill
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…
Learning has been recognized as an important factor in explaining the growth of firms in both industrial organization theory and literature. However, few models have…
This paper presents a critical review of the Global Value Chain literature in light of the Technological Capabilities approach to innovation in LDCs. Participation in…
AuthorsAndrea Morrison, Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti
This paper addresses a central question confronting politicians, business leaders, and economic planners throughout the world: How can local economic communities survive and prosper in…
AuthorsSachi Hatakenaka, Peter Westnes, Martin Gjelsvik, Richard K. Lester
The present study is aimed at assisting African countries to formulate concrete proposals related to market access for non-agricultural commodities. Accordingly, we will endeavour to…
AuthorsHakim Ben Hammouda, Stephen Karingi, Romain Perez and Mustapha Sadni-Jallab
This document presents the proposed South African Biofuels Industrial Draft Strategy, outlining Government approach to addressing policy, regulations and incentives. Internationally, biofuels are growing, due…
This survey of European industrial policy aims to set out and explain the great significance of European integration in determining (changes in) structure and performance…
This survey outlines the characteristics and drivers of the phases of European industrial policy over the last century and attempts some conclusions about policy impacts.…
AuthorsJames Foreman-Peck
Year2006
OrganisationEuropean Invest ment Bank
PublisherEconomic and Finance Studies Division of the EIB
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence that places industrial development and non-traditional manufactures in particular, in the driving seat of economic growth and development. This…
Very little has been written, at least in recent decades, about Keynes's radical rethinking of microeconomic theory and policy in the 1920s. The traditional view…
This paper summarizes the case for open economy industrial policy (OEIP) in Latin America and the Caribbean and responds to potential objections, namely, endogeneity, selection…
The main patterns of industrial development over the past decade are reviewed together with the broad thrusts of industrial policy. Despite major restructuring of industry…
Africa's industrial performance has been poor and its ability to industrialize successfully is under increasing question. This paper argues that industrialization remains vital to African…
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…
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.…
AuthorsPekka Yla-Antilla & Chritopher Palmberg
Year2005
OrganisationETLA - The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
This paper seeks to contribute to the debate relative to industrial technological capability building in association with changes into a liberalised and globalized economic regime…
AuthorsPaulo N Figueiredo
Year2005
OrganisationDanish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics
This Report focuses on a number of structural issues that have passed largely unnoticed and where substantial degrees of freedom remain for domestic policymaking vis-à-vis…
This paper examines empirical evidence of the technological capabilities of firms in the industrial pole of Manaus, in a developing area of northern Brazil. It…
This paper looks at the link between emergence and intention for economic development, specifically as it relates to the development of technologically innovative regions. Hence…
The main objective of this paper is to examine critically the importance, performance and underweighting of the industrial sector in Sub-Saharan Africa focusing on three…
South Africa is a developing country that currently has no obligation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol. Moreover,…
Local production of pharmaceuticals in developing countries may be seen as helping to stimulate industrial policy and/or as stimulating pharmaceutical access to needed medicines. However,…
The Energy Foundations China Sustainable Energy Program (CSEP) has undertaken a major project investigating fiscal and tax policy options for stimulating energy efficiency and renewable…
AuthorsLynn Price, Christina Galitsky, Jonathan Sinton, Ernst Worrell & Wina Graus
Year2005
OrganisationUniversity of California
PublisherErnest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The paper attempts to provide a concise and holistic overview of post-apartheid South Africa's competing imperatives in designing its economic policy, in which trade and…
The paper presents an in-depth case study of the Shanghai Baosteel Group as a contribution to overall assessment of the competitiveness and catch-up capability of…
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are regarded as primary examples of countries that have derived great benefits from increasing integration with the international economy, without…
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…
Customs unions represent a form of deep economic integration. The Southern African Customs Union (SACU), comprising four small members - Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland (BLNS)…
While the importance of technological capabilities to economic development is widely acknowledged, there is little agreement about the processes governing these capabilities, or about the…
In this paper, we examine the political economy and consequences of industrial policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Unlike in many…
AuthorsMustapha Nabli, Jennifer Keller, Claudia Nassif and Carlos Silva-Jauregui
The discussion on this paper is based on the development of a framework for conducting industrial policy that minimizes the risk that it will generate…
In the last decade, three countries have figured prominently as cases of late-late developing countries that achieved worldwide success with their Information Technology (IT) industries:…
This paper attempts to determine whether conditions amenable to successful selective interventions to capture cross-industry externalities are likely to be fulfilled in practice. Three criteria…
China's industrial policy for high-technology industries combines key features of the policies pursued elsewhere in East Asia, such as opening to foreign investors and supporting…
This chapter aims to examine whether there are indeed certain institutional prerequisites that a country should have before it can implement selective industrial and trade…
AuthorsHa-Joon Chang
Year2004
OrganisationThe International Development Research Centre
This paper characterises the process of economic policymaking and implementation in Zimbabwe, focusing on trade and industrial policies. Specifically, the study investigates the mechanisms through…
AuthorsBenson Zwizwai, Admore Kambudzi and Bonface Mauwa
Year2004
OrganisationThe International Development Research Centre
Firm-level data were used to estimate changes in factor efficiencies - imported inputs being one of them - over three sub-periods, 1977-84,1985-91,1992-99. These respectively denote…
Empirical evidence strongly suggests that R&D increases a firm's "absorptive capacity" (its ability to absorb spillovers from other firms) as well as contributing directly to…
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 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
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…
AuthorsEmmanuelle Auriol and Pierre Picard
Year2004
OrganisationUniversity of Toulouse and University of Manchester
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…
AuthorsLinda Orvedal
Year2004
OrganisationNorwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
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…
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…
AuthorsDavid Lewis, Kabelo Reed and Ethel Teljeur
Year2004
OrganisationThe International Development Research Centre
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…
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…
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…
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…
AuthorsGerrishon K. Ikiara, Joshua Olewe-Nyunya and Walter Odhiambo
Year2004
OrganisationThe International Development Research Centre
Nigeria's experience with external trade and industrialisation is a classic case of tragedy. Since independence the country has experienced rapid de-industrialisation, continuing loss of market…
AuthorsN. I. Ikpeze, C. C. Soludo and N. N. Elekwa
Year2004
OrganisationThe International Development Research Centre
SMEs industrial districts foster their success and the development of their local economic systems through the process of diffusion and accumulation of knowledge between firms…
The Government of the State of Eritrea has defined a macro-economic policy for recovery, reconstruction and development, which emphasises the new role of the Government…
This paper considers a case study of the challenges posed to interventionist economic policy-making by the existence and operation of the free trade institutions. The…
Globalization is a pervasive influence on industrialization in the developing world. As the embodiment of technological progress and more open markets, it offers huge productive…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mainstream economics and the Washington Consensus caution against industrial policies that target sectors, firms and regions. At the most they favour cross-sectoral policies which address…
AuthorsJustin Barnes, Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris
Project results show that the international industrial networks in CEE are organized by MNCs and are limited in scope (mainly intra-firm). The weakest node for…
During the 1990s, South Africa's trade policy was drastically reformed. This mainly entailed rapid tariff liberalisation agreed to under the General Agreement on Tariffs and…
This paper analyses the impact of industrial policy on the demand for labour. It shows that South Africa's industrial development has historically been driven by…
Trade policy is a central feature of the South African government's economic policy. In the early post-transition years it was widely debated. This debate is…
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…
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…
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.…
Since 2001 the Sector Job Summit project located at NALEDI has been conducting in-depth research in a number of industries in South Africa. The primary…
This paper is an exploration of the social capital needs of industrial development. 'ÂœSocial capital' attracts considerable attention in socio-political analysis and we are beginning…
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…
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…
AuthorsChristine Oughton, Mikel Landabaso & Kevin Morgan
This paper examines two sectors, integrated circuits (ICs) and personal computers (PCs). These sectors have figured prominently in Taiwan's technology policy. Both have had their…
This paper is a commentary which addresses the key issues in the South African automotive industry. The paper discusses the success of the motor industry…
U.S. industry consumes approximately 37% of the nations energy to produce 24% of the nations GDP. Increasingly, society is confronted with the challenge of moving…
AuthorsErnst Worrell, Nathan Martin Lynn Price and Michael Ruth
Year2002
OrganisationUniversity of California
PublisherErnest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
This paper analyses industrial policy in a high wage open economy hosting an agglomeration consisting of vertically linked upstream and downstream firms. We show that…
The continuing expansion and deepening integration of the European union is re-defining the map of threats and opportunities for both companies and regions in Europe.…
For twelve years now, China has attempted to develop and to consolidate its automotive industry through an industrial policy approach closely modeled on that implemented…
This research project on the South African white goods manufacturing industry is part of a broader initiative bringing together researchers globally to study changes taking…