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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).
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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