Industrial subsidies take on a growing importance in trade discussions. Yet assessing the scope and scale of government interventions in manufacturing remains notoriously difficult due to a persistent lack of reliable and comparable data. With many governments failing to provide sufficient...

What is the relationship between foreign manufacturing multinational corporations (MNCs) and the expansion of indigenous technological and managerial technological capabilities among Chinese firms? China has been remarkably successful in designing industrial policies, joint venture requirements,...

The paper investigated the drivers of innovation in the manufacturing, industry and services sectors of 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and found that (i) secondary education matters for value-added creation or innovation but the manufacturing and industry sectors need more and more...

Recent developments in policy initiatives as well as some current practical events have combined to put the spotlight on the issue of industrial embeddedness in sub-Saharan Africa. Though extant research documents, some stylized facts, as determinants of its manifestations of their relevance to...

The purpose of this report is twofold. First, to describe the digitalization of modern manufacturing and U.S. businesses' adoption of digital technologies and identify the implications for policy carried by these trends. And second, to provide recommendations for competition policy in Korea...

Korea’s manufacturing sector, the third most competitive in the world, has helped it weather the COVID-19 pandemic.While the global economy shrank 3.3 percent in 2020, its worst slowdown since the 2008 global financial crisis, the Korean economy contracted by just one percent thanks to its...

The Information Technology Agreement (ITA), a pluri-lateral trade agreement, seeks to accelerate and deepen the reduction of trade barriers for the critically important information and communication technology (ICT) industry. ITA thus provides an interesting case study of how tariff reduction...

Statistical data display a high level of sectorial and geographical concentration in the exports of three Central European new member states of the European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. All the three export huge quantities of the products of certain sectors of engineering...

In this paper, we use plant level data from two Indian industries, namely, electrical machinery and textiles, to examine the empirical relationship between structural reforms like abandonment of entry restrictions to the product market, competition and firm-level productivity and efficiency....

We analyze the causal impact of the industrial policy structure on the formation of zombie firms, using a rich data set of manufacturing firms in China between 1998 and 2007. We find that selective industrial policy schemes increase zombie shares in skill intensive sectors, because as subsidized...