This paper examines the income inequality implications of a 'premature deindustrialization' trend in middle-income countries. To identify the premature deindustrialization phase, we arrive at five conditions based on the trends in employment and value-added share of manufacture. Among these five...

Angesichts des anhaltenden Transformationsprozesses in Ostdeutschland ist die Analyse wirtschaftlicher Dynamiken in den neuen Ländern aktueller denn je. Die aggregierten Zahlen der statistischen Ämter zur Wirtschaftsentwicklung eignen sich jedoch nicht, um einen Einblick in die oftmals...

The growth in global competitiveness and interdependence has led to an increased interest in the role of industrial policy in achieving economic growth objectives. Heather Smith reignites the contentious debate of the role of the state using East Asian economic development in general with...