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01 January 2002
UNECA Country Studies - Economic Report on Africa 2001
South Africa's economic performance between 1995 and 2000 has been shaped by two main factors. The first is the political transition marked by the country's…
- Authors Stephen Gelb and Ethel Teljeur
- Year 2002
- Organisation UNECA
- Publisher The Edge Institute
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2004
Absorptive Capacity, R&D Spillovers and Public Policy
Empirical evidence strongly suggests that R&D increases a firm's "absorptive capacity" (its ability to absorb spillovers from other firms) as well as contributing directly to…
- Authors Dermot Leahy and J. Peter Neary
- Year 2004
- Organisation University of Dublin
- Publisher CEPR
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2000
A Science Technology and Industry Strategy for Vietnam
Vietnam intends S&T to be one of the components of the nation's socio-economic strategy. Against that larger framework, the vision of the long-term aspirations of…
- Authors Keith Bezanson
- Year 2000
- Organisation UNIDO
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
The purpose of this report is to provide a preliminary overview of the 'key' trends, challenges and opportunities facing the leather industry of South Africa.…
- Authors Richard Ballard
- Year 2001
- Organisation UKZN
- Publisher UKZN
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2000
Is Polder-Type Governance Good for You?
This paper searches for the origins of the relatively successful performance of Hoogovens, the only sizeable steel firm in the Netherlands. It is suggested that…
- Authors Hans Schenk
- Year 2000
- Organisation ERIM
- Publisher ERIM
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2001
Industrial Policy Resolution 2001 for the State of Orissa
In May 2001, the State Government of Orissa organized a review workshop in Bhubaneswar to discuss prospects for growth and industrial policy, following the undertaking…
- Authors UNIDO
- Year 2001
- Organisation UNIDO
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2000
Indonesia: Strategy for Manufacturing Competitiveness
Indonesia's competitiveness declined in the second half of the 1990s relative to other countries in Southeast and South Asia. The country now faces the real…
- Authors Shafiq Dhanani
- Year 2000
- Organisation UNDP/UNIDO
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2001
Tanzania: Sustainable Industrial Development and Competitiveness
Industrial Policy in the traditional sense was reactive, bureaucratic and demand side based. By contrast, modern industrial policy requires pro-active intervention and changes. Consequently, it…
- Authors UNIDO
- Year 2001
- Organisation UNIDO
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2004
On the Efficacy of Reforms: Policy Tinkering , Institutional Change and Entrepreneurship
This paper analyses the interplay of policy reform and entrepreneurship in a model where investment decisions and policy outcomes are both subject to uncertainty. The…
- Authors Murat Iyigun and Dani Rodrik
- Year 2004
- Organisation Harvard University and University of Colorado
- Publisher NBER
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2005
Trajectories for South African Industrial Policy and the Developmental State in South Africa
The focus of this paper is on industrial policy, an area that has been neglected not only in the discussion document mentioned, but also in…
- Authors Omano Edigheji
- Year 2005
- Organisation Centre for Policy Studies
- Publisher SARPN
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2003
South African Motor Industry Policy in the Cloud of Uncertainty
The complexity of the system of incentives and uncertainty surrounding the nature of relationships between policy variables in South Africa's motor industry tend to discourage…
- Authors Trevor Bell
- Year 2003
- Organisation The National Union of Metal workers of South Africa (NUMSA)
- Publisher NUMSA
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2003
Between Two Coordination Failures: Automotive Industrial Policy in China with a Comparison to Korea
It is well established that there are collective economic gains to be realised from local industrial agglomerations. These gains arise from labour market pooling, knowledge…
- Authors Johannes Machaka and Simon Roberts
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of Witwatersrand
- Publisher University of Witwatersrand
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2003
Addressing the Apartheid Industrial Legacy. Local Economic Development and Industrial Policy in South Africa
It is well established that there are collective economic gains to be realised from local industrial agglomerations. These gains arise from labour market pooling, knowledge…
- Authors Johannes Machaka and Simon Roberts
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of Witwatersrand
- Publisher University of Witwatersrand
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2002
The Export Success of the Motor Industry Development Programme and the Implications for Trade and Industrial Policy
Developments in the automotive industry have received considerable positive publicity over the last few years. Firstly, and most importantly, this is a consequence of rapid…
- Authors Anthony Black
- Year 2002
- Organisation TIPS
- Publisher TIPS
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2004
The Role of Government in Creating an Enabling Environment for Inter-Firm Cluster Co-operation. Policy Lessons from South Africa
The 1990s witnessed the emergence of a considerable body of research making a case for placing more emphasis on interfirm co-operation, networks, regional collaboration and…
- Authors Mike Morris and Glen Robbins
- Year 2004
- Organisation INTECH
- Publisher INTECH
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2004
What Should be the Role of Government in Fostering Clusters
This paper has a discrete, bounded and limited focus. It is about the role of government in facilitating cluster development in developing country contexts. The…
- Authors Mike Morris, Glen Robbins and Justin Barnes
- Year 2004
- Organisation UKZN
- Publisher School of Development Studies
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2001
Clustering as a Form of Improving Manufacturing Performance and Economic Growth in South Africa
South Africa's current industrial policy has a two level focus: sectoral and spatial. The former (addressed here) deals with improving the performance and competitiveness of…
- Authors H Nel and G Makuwaza
- Year 2001
- Organisation Rhodes University
- Publisher SA Economic Society
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Although the Constitution envisages an economic system for Lao PDR based on market mechanisms, a review of the government's overall approach to industrial planning concludes…
- Authors UNIDO
- Year 2003
- Organisation UNIDO
- Publisher UNIDO Publication
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
Through a study of the plastics sector in South Africa, the article critically examines the pro-globalisation position that greater openness yields gains from exports and…
- Authors Simon Roberts
- Year 2001
- Organisation University of Witwatersrand
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource
01 January 2000
Industrial Policy and the East German Productivity Puzzle
Catching-up of East German productivity to West German levels has halted completely since the mid l990s. The remaining productivity gap cannot be attributed to an…
- Authors Henning Klodt
- Year 2000
- Organisation Kiel Institute of World Economics
- Publisher Blackwell Publishers
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Industrial Policy Reference Resource