Working Paper

The industrialization which started in 1953 had been completely disrupted by the chronic civil war and closed-door policy of successive communism/socialism regimes. Since 1993 Cambodia has embraced a market economy heavily dependent on foreign...

• Industrial policy

Blog

Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan China and India have become global economic powers. Even at the market exchange rate, China overtook Japan...

• Economic development
• Poverty measurement
• Industrial policy

Blog

Luc Christiaensen and Lionel Demery Escalating food prices in 2007-2008, climate change and land grabbing have woken the world up to the extraordinary...

• Agricultural industries
• Agricultural innovations
• Agriculture

Working Paper

This chapter analyses the main features of industrial policies carried out in Latin America since 1990. It studies these policies during import substitution industrialization and how they changed after the market-oriented economic reforms. It...

• Industrial policy
• Policy sciences

Working Paper

Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between...

• Business networks
• Economic development
• Industrial policy

Working Paper

In the past, research on changes in relative importance among broad three sectors—agriculture, industry, and service—showed general patterns of a country’s structural transformation along with economic development. However, there has been devoid of...

• Economic development
• Industrial policy
• Industries

Working Paper

Technological latecomer countries face a dilemma, they need to pursue pro-active industrial policies to compensate for manifold disadvantages vis-à-vis established competitors, but at the same time, due to neopatrimonial politics and capacity...

• Economic development
• Industrial policy
• Policy sciences

Working Paper

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement...

• Business
• Entrepreneurship
• Government business enterprises

Working Paper

This study shows that China’s post-1949 state-led industrialization has closely followed an underlying path that began in the late nineteenth century. It was initiated by pressing national defence needs and has since been motivated by the same and...

• Democratization
• Government business enterprises
• Industrial policy

Working Paper

In considering pathways to industrialization in the twenty-first century, cognisance needs to be taken of the fact that many countries have actually been deindustrializing. This paper analyses deindustrialization experiences internationally, by...

• Industrial policy
• Industrialization
• Labour productivity

Working Paper

Industrial policy has attracted considerable controversy in the development context. This paper makes a case for a pragmatic and limited approach to interventions as a means of stimulating industrialization in the context of current and future...

• Industrial policy
• Industrial productivity
• Industrialization

Working Paper

The paper views migration of skills from a perspective of new industrial policy. It introduces two types of search networks: open migration chains and diaspora networks. Migration chains are sequences of educational or job opportunities which allows...

• Economic development
• Emigration and immigration
• Human capital

Working Paper

Innovations spur science-based trade and industrial development in a fast changing pace of globalization. Knowledge accumulation and diffusion have been increasingly recognised as fundamental factors that play an important role in long-run economic...

• Economic development
• Industrial policy
• Technological innovations

Blog

by Otto Toivanen October 2009

Otto Toivanen At least since the 1950s it has been recognized that innovation is central to economic growth. It has also been well understood that...

• Economic policy (Business enterprises)
• Research (Technological innovations)
• Industrial policy

Journal Article

Africa needs structural change to sustain growth. Industry with and without smoke stacks is key, but Africa has deindustrialised since the 1970s. Can Africa industrialise? Rising costs and domestic demand in Asia offer an opportunity. However, trade...

• Comparative economics
• Industrial policy

Working Paper

• Industrial policy
• International trade
• Manufacturing