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The cluster-based development strategy in Kazakhstan's agro-food sector: A critical assessment from an Austrian perspective

Wandel, Jürgen - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2010

This paper challenges the uselfullness of the cluster-based development strategy to diversify and increase the competitiveness of Kazakhstan's economy, regarding the case of the country's agro-food sector. For this it refers to insights of the Austrian Market Process Theory. It is argued that...

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Deciding about (de-)centralization of industrial policy: Delegation by a central authority vs. bargaining of regional governments

Morasch, Karl - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2003

Die europäische Kommission ist primärer Träger der Industriepolitik in der europäischen Union. Industriepolitische … Industriepolitik besser von einem zentralen Träger durchgeführt wird, der Spillovers internalisiert, oder von den regionalen … Industriepolitik regional oder durch eine zentrale Instanz durchgeführt werden soll. Interessanterweise schneidet bei Verhandlungen mit …

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Cluster Policy: Principles and a Toolbox

Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Cluster policy has become a method of choice for economic policymakers in many nations and regions in both industrialized and developing countries. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the policy is being perceived by politicians and practitioners as a way to anchor economic activity in locations...

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Determining Industrial Policy in Current Conditions of Competition

Labory, Sandrine - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2014) 4

Industrial policy has recently seen a renewed interest at both the political and the theoretical level, and has been much debated. This paper argues that an important research issue to address now is what industrial policy should be implemented, namely what set of instruments are to be applied...

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The importance of manufacturing in economic development: Past, present and future perspectives

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

The structural transformation of a traditional economy dominated by primary activities into a modern economy where high-productivity activities in manufacturing assume an important role remains a defining feature of economic development. The challenges to attain such structural transformation...

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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Warum die Neue Industriepolitik die Deindustrialisierung beschleunigen wird

Peneder, Michael - FIW - 2014

Strukturwandel von den Sachgütern hin zu den Dienstleistungen grundsätzlich umkehrbar ist. Einzelne Länder können zwar durch … Produktivitätswachstum stärkende Industriepolitik ist hingegen notwendig und sinnvoll. Paradoxerweise wird sie aber entgegen der Zielsetzung …

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International structural change in the automotive industry: a north- South perspective.

O'Brien, P - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1988

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Flexible rigidities: industrial policy and structural adjustment in the Japanese economy, 1970-80.

R, Dore; K, Taira - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on structural change and industrial policy trends from 1970-1980 in Japan - discusses adjustment to petroleum price increases and inflation, competition, changing occupational structure and trade structure, role of workers, trade unions and entrepreneurs (incl....

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Guiding structural change : the role of government in development

Carson, Matthew - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2010

Examines the role of government in the process of structural change.

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