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The Industrial Policy Reference Resource is a bibliography of key South African and international references on industrial policy and related subjects. It was developed with financial assistance from the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) and the Department for International Development (DFID).
The broad industrial strategy followed since the 1920s, even though not consciously framed in those terms, seemed to display three main characteristics. First, it contained…
- Authors A Bezuidenhout
- Year 2002
- Organisation NEDLAC
- Publisher Umanyano Publications
The Government Integrated Manufacturing Strategy identifies competitiveness as its primary focus, and value matrices as the framework within which to assess manufacturing performance. This paper…
- Authors Simon Roberts
- Year 2002
- Organisation TIPS
- Publisher TIPS
This paper examines selected policies, programmes and institutions that are central to industrial and trade policy in South Africa. Attention is principally focused on policy…
- Authors David Lewis, Kabelo Reed and Ethel Teljeur
- Year 2004
- Organisation The International Development Research Centre
- Publisher IDRC/CRDI
Government is studied as a supporter of science and of the transformation of scientific discoveries into new technology and firm formation. The importance of scientific…
- Authors Gunnar Eliasson
- Year 2000
- Organisation The Royal Institute of Technology
- Publisher Springer
Reducing the proportion of state-owned shares (SOSs) in China is a complicated undertaking related to several reform issues, including the strategic reform of the economy…
- Authors Ke Li and Tongliang An
- Year 2004
- Organisation University of Connecticut
- Publisher Blackwell Publishers
Since China promulgated the first explicit industrial policy in 1989, state intervention with respect to business in China has become more industry-oriented. National economic planning…
- Authors Lu Ding
- Year 2000
- Organisation CPB, the National Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
- Publisher n/a
The theory of strategic trade policy highlights differences in the commitment ability of firms and governments as a key motivation for intervention in oligopolistic markets.…
- Authors J Peter Neary and Dermot Leahy
- Year 2003
- Organisation University of Dublin
- Publisher CEPR
A market economy allocates too few resources to an industry with increasing returns to scale, such as an agglomerated cluster. A subsidy to the cluster…
- Authors Linda Orvedal
- Year 2004
- Organisation Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
- Publisher European Trade Study Group
This paper develops a model of joint determination of trade and industrial policies where the politicians in charge of the government can direct the rents…
- Authors Hadi Salehi Esfahani & Munir Mahmud
- Year 2000
- Organisation University of Illinois
- Publisher SSRN
This paper explores how growth and job creation depend on private sector choices concerning how to produce, that is the relative proportions of capital and…
- Authors Michael Samson, Kenneth Mac Quene and Ingrid van Niekerk
- Year 2001
- Organisation TIPS/EPRI/USAID
- Publisher TIPS
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Recent research has demonstrated the possibility of welfare-enhancing industrial policy. This paper analyses the impact of industrial policy on Japan's trade pattern, and explores the…
- Authors Marcus Noland
- Year 2001
- Organisation John Hopkins University
- Publisher John Hopkins University
We study the impact of government's budget constraint on the privatization decision of increasing returns to scale industry. Privatization is associated with prices liberalization, public…
- Authors Emmanuelle Auriol and Pierre Picard
- Year 2004
- Organisation University of Toulouse and University of Manchester
- Publisher SSRN
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
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