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Towards inclusive development in MyanmarTheme: Transformation
UNU-WIDER and the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of the Ministry of Planning and Finance of Myanmar, supported financially by Danida , are working together to strengthen evidence-based policy-making and analysis, supporting the country...
Inclusive growth Economic reform Industrial policyWorking 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 GovernanceWorking Paper
Downstream activities: The possibilities and the realitiesThe paper discusses the practical possibilities of achieving increased downstream processing and the policies that are commonly used for this purpose...
extractives industry Downstream processing Vertical integrationWorking Paper
Local content, supply chains, and shared infrastructureLocal content policies in the context of extractive industries have attracted increased interest in recent years...
extractives industry Local content Industrial policyWorking Paper
Differentials in market constraints and value addition among micro, small, and medium enterprises in Viet NamThis paper analyses the differentials of productive values in Vietnamese micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and how market constraints have hindered their performance...
SMEs Industrial policy value additionBook
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 transformationWorking Paper
Identifying growth opportunities in the Southern African Development Community through regional value chains: The case of the animal feed to poultry value chainThis paper considers findings of studies analysing the development of a regional animal feed to poultry value chain in southern Africa (Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)...
Value chains southern Africa PoultryWorking Paper
The role and effectiveness of Special Economic Zones in TanzaniaSpecial Economic Zones (SEZs) have been successfully used as an industrial policy tool in many countries...
Economic development Industrial policy Nonprofit organizationsJournal Article
Measuring industry coagglomeration and identifying the driving forcesUnderstanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in developing countries. Crucial to this process is the definition and measurement of agglomeration...
Industrial policy Labor market Manufacturing industriesWorking Paper
Industry in Tanzania: Performance, prospects, and public policyTanzania ranks among the leading stars of the ‘African growth miracle’, but a sector that has been largely absent from the Tanzania success story is industry...
Industrial policy ManufacturingWorking Paper
The state, the market, and developmentThe state has played a major role in the most important developmental successes...
Economic development Equality and inequality Industrial policyWorking Paper
Industrial policy, learning, and developmentIndustrial policies have played an important role in successful development. Through these policies, governments intervene in the market’s sectoral allocation of resources and choice of technologies...
Industrial policy Technological innovationsWorking Paper
The industrial policy experience of the electronics industry in MalaysiaDespite the use of industrial policies to stimulate economic growth by several successful developers, latecomers have faced mixed experiences. Hence, this paper analyses the industrial policy experience of the electronics industry in Malaysia...
Electronic commerce Industrial policy Institutional economicsVideo
Exports, Learning and Industrialization (I)L2C Conference - Parallel 1.2
Industrialization Industrial policy ManufacturingResearch uptake
Learning to Compete (L2C): Accelerating Industrial Development in AfricaLearning to compete (L2C) is collaborative research project between UNU-WIDER, the African Development Bank, and the Brookings Institution. The project aims to answer the question: why is there so little industry in Africa? Industry—including modern...
Trade Competitiveness Industrial policyWorking Paper
State-business relations as drivers of economic performanceEffective state-business relations (SBRs) have been lacking in industrial policy thinking despite the strong theoretical case for SBRs...
Business enterprises Economic growth Industrial policy