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Towards inclusive development in Myanmar
Theme: Transformation
Inclusive growth Economic reform Industrial policyBlog
Rethinking African industrialization on another Africa Industrialization Day
This week I attended the 28 th Africa Industrialization Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Even sympathetic readers may reasonably ask, why hold another African Industrialization Day at all?...
Industrialization structural change Industrial policyWorking Paper
From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy: Explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about itSuccess in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of global employment in manufacturing will decline, manufacturing won’t play the same role in the coming decades...
Stockholm Statement Industrial policy Dynamic comparative advantageBlog
‘Industrial’ policy in the 21st century During the past week, I participated in two international conferences. The first was the WIDER Development Conference in Helsinki: Think development - Think WIDER ...
Industrialization structural change Employment and IndustryWorking Paper
Institutions and Asia’s development: The role of norms and organizational powerThe role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal’s Asian Drama, with later contributions from institutional economics and developmental state theory...
Institutions Organizations Political settlementsBook Chapter
Downstream activities: The possibilities and the realitiesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
extractives industry Downstream processing Vertical integrationBook Chapter
Local content, supply chains, and shared infrastructureFrom the book: Extractive Industries
extractives industry Local content Industrial policyBook Chapter
New industrial policy and the extractive industriesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Natural resources extractives industry GovernanceWorking Paper
Industrial development in Asia: Trends in industrialization and industrial policy experiences of developing AsiaIndustrial transformation of Asia arguably constitutes the most surprising and dramatic change in the global economy in the last fifty years...
Industrial policy Industrialization Structural transformationWorking Paper
Six development paths in Southeast Asia: Three plus threeSix Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand) defied Gunnar Myrdal’s pessimistic prognosis in his 1968 volume, Asian Drama, regarding their prospects for devel...
Agricultural productivity Investments, Foreign Industrial policyNews
UNU-WIDER shortlisted for the Prospect Think Tank Awards 2018UNU-WIDER has been shortlisted for the Prospect Magazine’s Think Tank Awards 2018 . The Institute is ranked in the category of international economic & financial think tanks based on the research on industrial policy, including the project...
Think tanks Industrial policyJournal Article
The southern African poultry value chain: Corporate strategies, investments and agro-industrial policiesPart of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
Industrial policy Poultry Regional integrationPolicy Brief
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What role for East African hydrocarbons in the global economy post-Paris COP21?
Over the past decade significant hydrocarbon discoveries have been made across East Africa...
Natural resources extractives industry GovernanceWorking Paper
New industrial policy and the extractive industriesIndustrial policy is back. Advocates for industrial policy argue that the important question is not whether such policies should be applied at all, but how to design and implement them...
Natural resources extractives industry GovernanceBook
The Practice of Industrial Policy: Government–Business Coordination in Africa and East AsiaThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Industrialization Industrial policy Structural transformation