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- Year 2003
- Countries and Regions South Africa
In this exploratory analysis of household survey data, households' main income sources are used indicators of integration into the South African core economy. Notwithstanding the country's high urbanization rates, the picture of household income generation which emerges is one that disputes common perceptions of the multitude of means by which…
- Year 2003
- Author(s) Stan Dieden
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Competition policy is part of the new international orthodoxy in economic policy and, at the same time, was viewed in South Africa as a crucial element of economic transformation. This article reviews the role of competition policy in economic development and the experiences of developing countries such as Brazil and…
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of the Witwatersrand
- Author(s) Simon Roberts
- Countries and Regions South Africa
08 May 2007
EPA Negotiations Workshop
Since 2005 there have been two training workshops to equip interested individuals and organisations to prepare for the Economic Partnerships Agreement (EPA) negotiations. As the SADC EPA negotiations are now heading towards the final months, one more workshop is offered. The main focus will be extraction of data from the…
- Date Tuesday, 22 May 2007
- Venue Kopanong Conference Centre in Benoni, Johannesburg
- Organisation Overseas Development Institute
Published in
Events Archive
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…
- Authors Andrew Schrank & Marcus Kurtz
- Year 2006
- Organisation LSE/ISA
- Publisher n/a
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2006
Innovation-Based Industrial Policy in Emerging Economies
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…
- Authors Dan Breznitz
- Year 2006
- Organisation Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Publisher The Berkeley Electronic Press
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2004
Industrial Policy for the Twenty-First Century
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…
- Authors Dani Rodrik
- Year 2004
- Organisation UNIDO
- Publisher n/a
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2000
Industrial Policy. Growth Elixir or Poison?
The debate about industrial policy occasioned by the East Asian financial crisis is the latest chapter in an ongoing discussion about the effectiveness of selective…
- Authors Howard Pack
- Year 2000
- Organisation The World Bank
- Publisher Oxford University Press
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2005
Industrial Development and Industrial Policy in South Africa
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…
- Authors Simon Roberts
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of Witwatersrand
- Publisher United Nations Publication
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2006
South Africa's Export Predicament
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…
- Authors Ricardo Hausmann and Bailey Klinger
- Year 2006
- Organisation Harvard University
- Publisher The President and the Fellows of Harvard College
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
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…
- Authors Jim Stanford
- Year 2003
- Organisation Canadian Auto Workers
- Publisher n/a
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2003
Industrial Success and Failure in a Globalizing World
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…
- Authors Sanjaya Lall
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2005
Is African Industry Competing?
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…
- Authors Sanjaya Lall & Erika Kraemer-Mbula
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2003
Reinventing Industrial Strategy. The role of Government Policy in Building Industrial Competitiveness
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…
- Authors Sanjaya Lall
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2000
Selective Industrial and Trade Policies in Developng Countires. Theoretical and Empirical Issues
This paper analyses the case for selective industrial and trade policies in Africa, drawing upon the lessons of East Asia. It reviews the theoretical arguments…
- Authors Sanjaya Lall
- Year 2000
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2002
Social Capital and Industrial Transformation
This paper is an exploration of the social capital needs of industrial development. 'Social capital' attracts considerable attention in socio-political analysis and we are beginning…
- Authors Sanjaya Lall
- Year 2002
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
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…
- Authors Larry E. Westphal
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher QEH
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2006
The Case for Industrial Policy. A Critical Survey
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…
- Authors Howard Pack & Kamal Saggi
- Year 2006
- Organisation The World Bank
- Publisher Development Research Group
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
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…
- Authors David Kaplan
- Year 2007
- Organisation University of Oxford
- Publisher n/a
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2005
The Specificities of Finnish Industrial Policy. Challenges and Initiatives at the Turn of the Century
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.…
- Authors Pekka Yla-Antilla & Chritopher Palmberg
- Year 2005
- Organisation ETLA - The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
- Publisher ETLA
Published in
Industrial Policy Reference Resource