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Promoting industrialization in Africa: Global versus regional value chainsAs COVID-19 ravages international trade and production, policy-makers are shifting their sights from global value chains (GVCs) to regional value chains (RVCs) as pathways to industrialization...
value chain directionality textiles apparelPolicy Brief
Mining for change: How can natural resources support inclusive growth in AfricaFor a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks. There is an extensive literature linking natural resource dependence to poor economic performance...
Mining Extractive industries Industrial policyWorking Paper
Value chain directionality, upgrading, and industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sectorsWith recent changes in the global economy, policy makers are increasingly turning from global value chains to regional and national value chains as drivers of structural transformation in the global South...
value chain directionality textiles apparelWorking Paper
Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in South AfricaThis paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the present day...
Structural transformation Inclusive growth South AfricaWorking Paper
Structural transformation and inclusive growth: Kuznets’ ‘developer’s dilemma’ in IndonesiaWe focus on special characteristics of the manufacturing sector, in terms of employment generation and productivity growth, that enable the rapid, resilient economic catch-up of developing countries...
Structural transformation Inclusive growth IndonesiaWorking Paper
Winners and losers in industrial policy 2.0Large-scale business subsidies tied to national industrial development promotion programmes are notoriously difficult to study and are often inseparable from the political economy of large government programmes...
firm subsidies Fiscal policy Industrial policyBook
Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in AfricaFor a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks...
Mining Industrial policy Extractive industriesWorking Paper
De-industrialization, re-industrialization, and the resurgence of state capitalism: The case of IndonesiaDiscussions on the developing world’s industrial policies have largely neglected the role of state-owned entities...
Industrialization Industrial policy infrastructureWorking Paper
South African gold mining and local procurement in Tanzania and GhanaWe examine the extent to which two of Africa’s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement policies to enhance backward linkages from the minerals sector...
Mining Extractives goldWorking Paper
The governance of global value chains, the state, and small businesses: The case of timber in MyanmarWe use the case of the timber industry in Myanmar to analyse how national regulatory frameworks and international ecological discourses affect forest management and small businesses...
Timber Wood ForestryLecture
MOOC: Industrial policy for the 21st century – the challenge for Africa
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Southeast AsiaFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Agricultural productivity Investments Industrial policyBook Chapter
Institutions and DevelopmentFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Institutions Organizations Political settlementsBook Chapter
Industrialization and DevelopmentFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Industrial policy Industrialization Structural transformationPolicy Brief
Learning from a half-century of economic development in AsiaWhen Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations , in 1968, he was deeply pessimistic about the development prospects in Asia...
Development Economics Asia Industrial policyWorking Paper
Moving up the copper value chain in Southern AfricaSouthern African countries—mainly Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—account for around a seventh of global production of copper...
Copper Industrialization Agglomeration