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Till recently the investment policy of India was overtly nationalistic. Today however everything seems to be changing …
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The present paper reports an attempt to evaluate the relative effects of regional policy on investment in Greek … manufacturing industry during 1971-82. A generalized neoclassical model of investment behaviour is used allowing for separate … estimates of the effects of different policy instruments. Both regional investment incentives and infrastructure expenditures …
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’ innovative performance. Specif-ically, although the three kinds of public aid stimulate the intensity of R&D in-vestment, the …
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programs in Vietnam consistently refer back to it while, at the same time, policy advisors typically call for reform …
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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...
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During the past two decades, the “Washington Consensus” has been the dominant recipe for unleashing economic growth in developing countries. In view of the strong criticism mounted against it, it seems to have lost prominence recently. The success of the East Asian newly industrialized...
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The paper aims to show some of the complex relationships between institutions and industrial policies. Institutions are important factors determining the slow pace of change of the societies, their economies, States and private sectors, therefore presenting important consequences for the design...
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We discuss the ongoing liberalization process in the market for addressed letter mail in Switzerland. The core of the paper is an assessment of the liberalization's impact on the financial viability of various universal service obligations with and without access to the incumbent's downstream...
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This paper used individual level data in Japan to explore how a complainant’s past trial experience influences their satisfaction and incentive to bring a future lawsuit. Controlling for kinds of incidents and a complainant’s individual characteristics, the major findings were; (1) there is a...
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More than half of the countries in the world have introduced a reform process in their power sectors and billions of … the reform process. Adapting a political economy perspective, this paper attempts to discover the impact of political … more likely to liberalize their electricity markets. In OECD countries, single-party governments accelerate the reform …
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