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01 January 2005
African Industrial Development - Beyond Impasse: The Case of Botswana, Tanzania and Zambia
The main objective of this paper is to examine critically the importance, performance and underweighting of the industrial sector in Sub-Saharan Africa focusing on three…
- Authors S. M. Kapunda
- Year 2005
- Organisation CODESRIA
- Publisher CODESRIA
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2003
Industrial Policy in Developing Economies: Developing Dynamic Comparative Advantage in the South African Automobile Sector
Mainstream economics and the Washington Consensus caution against industrial policies that target sectors, firms and regions. At the most they favour cross-sectoral policies which address…
- Authors Justin Barnes, Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris
- Year 2003
- Organisation Institute of Development Studies
- Publisher IDS
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2006
Can the Doha Round Benefit Africa's Industrial Sector?
The present study is aimed at assisting African countries to formulate concrete proposals related to market access for non-agricultural commodities. Accordingly, we will endeavour to…
- Authors Hakim Ben Hammouda, Stephen Karingi, Romain Perez and Mustapha Sadni-Jallab
- Year 2006
- Organisation Economic Commission for Africa
- Publisher UNDP
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
South Africa is a developing country that currently has no obligation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol. Moreover,…
- Authors Mark Howells and John A. Laitner
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of Cape Town
- Publisher ERC-UCT
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2001
Leading Issues on Africa's Path to Industrialization. The Role of Support Systems and Instruments
The purpose of this paper is to highlight a number of issues that impede sub-Saharan Africa's endeavour to achieve a higher degree of industrialization, with…
- Authors Kandeh Yumkella & Jebamalai Vinanchiarachi
- Year 2001
- Organisation UNIDO/CSAE
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2001
Defence Procurement and Regional Industrial Development in South Africa. A Case Study of the Eastern Cape
Offsets or industrial participation have become an increasingly important part of arms procurement, with the promise of economic benefits often being an important justification of…
- Authors P Dunne and Richard Haines
- Year 2001
- Organisation MUBS
- Publisher MUBS
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Local production of pharmaceuticals in developing countries may be seen as helping to stimulate industrial policy and/or as stimulating pharmaceutical access to needed medicines. However,…
- Authors Warren A Kaplan & Richard Laing
- Year 2005
- Organisation HNP-The World Bank
- Publisher IBRD/The World Bank
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2006
Biofuels Industrial Strategy of the Republic of South Africa
This document presents the proposed South African Biofuels Industrial Draft Strategy, outlining Government approach to addressing policy, regulations and incentives. Internationally, biofuels are growing, due…
- Authors Department of Minerals and Energy
- Year 2006
- Organisation Department of Minerals and Energy
- Publisher n/a
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2002
Is the MIDP a Model for Selective Industrial Policies?
This paper is a commentary which addresses the key issues in the South African automotive industry. The paper discusses the success of the motor industry…
- Authors Frank Flatters
- Year 2002
- Organisation TIPS/NEDLAC
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2004
Energy Efficiency Programs and Policies in the Industrial Sector in Industrialized Countries
About 37% of the primary energy consumed both in the U.S. and globally is used by the industrial sector. A variety of energy efficiency policies…
- Authors Christina Galitsky, Lynn Price & Ernst Worrell
- Year 2004
- Organisation University of California
- Publisher Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2005
Tax and Fiscal Policies for Promotion of Industrial Energy Efficiency. A Survey of International Experience
The Energy Foundations China Sustainable Energy Program (CSEP) has undertaken a major project investigating fiscal and tax policy options for stimulating energy efficiency and renewable…
- Authors Lynn Price, Christina Galitsky, Jonathan Sinton, Ernst Worrell & Wina Graus
- Year 2005
- Organisation University of California
- Publisher Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2002
Emerging Energy-Efficient Technologies for Industry
U.S. industry consumes approximately 37% of the nations energy to produce 24% of the nations GDP. Increasingly, society is confronted with the challenge of moving…
- Authors Ernst Worrell, Nathan Martin Lynn Price and Michael Ruth
- Year 2002
- Organisation University of California
- Publisher Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2001
Industrial Energy Efficiency Policy in China
Chinese industrial sector energy-efficiency policy has gone through a number of distinct phases since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. An initial period…
- Authors Lynn Price, Ernst Worrell and J Sinton
- Year 2001
- Organisation University of California
- Publisher Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2001
Industrial Clusters: Equilibrium, Welfare and Policy
This paper studies the size and number of industrial clusters that will arise in a multi-country world in which one sector has a propensity to…
- Authors Victor D Norman & Anthony J Venables
- Year 2001
- Organisation UK ESRC
- Publisher CEPR
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2001
Robust Rules for Industrial Policy in Open Economies
The theory of strategic trade policy yields ambiguous recommendations for assistance to exporting firms in oligopolistic industries. However, some writers have suggested that investment subsidies…
- Authors Dermot Leahy & J. Peter Neary
- Year 2001
- Organisation University College Dublin
- Publisher CEPR
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2002
Globalization, Industrial Policy and Clusters
This paper analyses industrial policy in a high wage open economy hosting an agglomeration consisting of vertically linked upstream and downstream firms. We show that…
- Authors Rikard Forslid & Karen-Helene Ulltveit-Moe
- Year 2002
- Organisation Research Council of Norway
- Publisher CEPR
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2004
Selective Intervention and Growth: The Case of Korea
This paper attempts to determine whether conditions amenable to successful selective interventions to capture cross-industry externalities are likely to be fulfilled in practice. Three criteria…
- Authors Marcus Noland & Howard Pack
- Year 2004
- Organisation Institute of International Economics
- Publisher Institute for International Economics
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
The continuing expansion and deepening integration of the European union is re-defining the map of threats and opportunities for both companies and regions in Europe.…
- Authors Ray Hudson
- Year 2002
- Organisation Sussex European Institute
- Publisher ERSC
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2001
The Cluster Approach and the Dynamics of Regional Policy-Making
The recent emergence of the cluster concept represents one of the most common policy approaches to addressing the tensions between globalization and localization. Originally articulated…
- Authors Philip Raines
- Year 2001
- Organisation University of Srathclyde
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2001
Industrial Dynamics and Endogenous Growth
Economic growth can be described at the macro level, but it can never be explained at that level. Economic growth is a matter of experimental…
- Authors Bo Carlsson & Gunnar Eliasson
- Year 2001
- Organisation Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource