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Services-led industrialization in India: Assessment and lessons
Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper provides an integrated analysis of the role of the service sector in recent Indian economic development. It discusses the nature of services, their distinction from products, and their categorization. It provides an overview of India’s overall growth experience, and a detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786966
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Picking Winners and Losers: An Empirical Analysis of Industrial Policy in Morocco
Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper describes the major instruments of industrial policy in Morocco since its independence (1956) and assesses them empirically. Regarding the second objective, several methods for assessing the impact of industrial policy exist in the economic literature. In this paper the question is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836161
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Comparative advantage, industrial policy and the World Bank: back to first principles
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides a critical analysis of the World Bank’s new thinking on industrial policy. After outlining the changing perspectives on industrial policy put forward by the World Bank over the last three decades, we argue that the bank’s economists have taken one step forward (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257840
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A case study of an advanced Dutch disease: The Russian oil
Covi, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
the “Dutch Disease”, that is, if a boom in the oil and gas industry has led to a process of de-industrialization, directly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258544
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Comparative advantage, industrial policy and the World Bank: back to first principles
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Abstract This paper provides a critical analysis of the World Bank’s new thinking on industrial policy. After outlining the changing perspectives on industrial policy put forward by the World Bank over the last three decades, we argue that the bank’s economists have taken one step forward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260514
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Review of "Industrial Policy and Development: The Political Economy of Capabilities Accumulation"
Harrison, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This is a review of the recent book on industrial policy edited by Cimoli, Dosi, and Stiglitz.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112384
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La pobreza y las clases: Dinámicas y estrategias en Bolivia
Buzaglo, Jorge; Calzadilla, Alvaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Income distribution among social classes, a preferred topic by the classical economists, has not often been frequented by later scholars. Some recent studies show a new interest, and a generalized increase in income concentration in favor of the capitalist class, particularly in Latin America....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836415
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Simulating extended reproduction: Poverty reduction and class dynamics in Bolivia
Buzaglo, Jorge; Calzadilla, Alvaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
An extended reproduction model is used to simulate the effects of alternative poverty reduction strategies. Three policy variables are introduced: (de)indebtedness policy, investment policy and income distribution policy, contributing respectively to the objectives of policy sovereignty,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839192
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India’s Development Strategy: Accidents, Design and Replicability
Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines India’s development strategy, and to what extent it may be considered a success. It provides a brief history of why and how the strategy was adopted, as well as of its implementation, including the role of initial conditions, such as human capital, geographical location,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623326
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Economic Miracle of Post-Soviet Space: Why Uzbekistan Managed to Achieve What No Other Post-Soviet State Achieved
Popov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Uzbekistan is not usually considered an economic success story, but in fact it is: its GDP increased since 1989 more … than in any other post-communist country, except for China, Vietnam and Turkmenistan. The success of Uzbekistan is very … macroeconomic policy and export oriented industrial policy. What makes Uzbekistan unique is that no other former Soviet republic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259609