In the early transformation years, the incorporation of the transforming economies in the global structure of manufacturing was characterized by a partial geographical separation of production related service activities from production (physical processing activities). Part of the physical...

This chapter explores the factors behind the apparent superior performance of green industrial policy (GIP) in developmental states (exemplified by China), as compared with the inefficiencies of GIP in developed countries (exemplified by the USA). The specific context is the overwhelming export...