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In the fiercely competitive global environment that has prevailed since the removal of (MFA) quotas in 2005, many textile and apparel suppliers have sought to compete by forming and protecting niches. Building competence in design, branding and retail distribution has been an important part of...
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implemented almost immediately to salvage the sector. In this context, the paper analyzes the potential for India to develop its … different approaches. Secondary data analysis tells us that high value manufacturing in India exists only in islands. Cross … country comparisons with other East Asian economies such as Korea, Japan and China reveal that India has an opportunity to …
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India presents an unique example of manufacturing capability in most sectors, but low integration into GVCs. This paper … examines the reasons for India's low integration into GVCs, especially in the manufacturing sector. It argues that one of the … reasons for India's low integration into GVCs is its primary focus on the domestic market. The second reason for India …
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In contrast to the limited impact of aggregate-level productive development policies (PDPs) in Argentina, micro-level PDPs in several sectors have proven highly successful. This study seeks to understand how these PDPs succeeded in a challenging environment, what kinds of mechanisms were...
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While Mexico has potential to grow rapidly, its economic growth has remained low for the past three decades. There is no consensus on the country s development path or on how to achieve specific goals. Since the policy debate remains ideological and lacks pragmatism, productive development...
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This paper reviews productive development policies (PDPs) in Guatemala, focusing on the alleged justification of existing programs in terms of the market or government failures they are meant to address. An effort is made to identify how the different instruments complement or contradict each...
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This paper analyzes five Productive Development Policies (PDPs) implemented in Costa Rica, finding that they are not optimally addressing market failures. Moreover, government failures rather than market failures represent the main justification for PDPs. Even in the presence of market failures,...
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Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policy to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. For example, the Canada - Renewable energy dispute is over Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs in...
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