This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The policy required new owners of the firms to commit to employment targets, with penalties for non-compliance. Using a dynamic model, we...

Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Author and Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 The Potential of Light Manufacturing in Africa; Introduction; Figure 1.1 Sources of Relative Excess Production Costs, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia, 2011; Why Light Manufacturing?; Figures;...

Contributors analyse a number of dimensions of the Canadian experience in implementing sustainable development and critically assess how the country has done over this twenty year period. They discuss both the breakthroughs and disappointments of the Canadian experience, and look toward the...

Cover -- Praise for Markets over Mao -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- PIIE's Board of Directors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 State versus Market Capitalism -- Chapter 2 Reform of State-Owned Enterprises -- Chapter 3 Rise of the Private Sector...

Vietnam has officially admitted its failure to achieve industrialized economy status by 2020. This failure is partly due to its inability to grow a strong local manufacturing base and develop key strategic industries.The participation of Vingroup, the country's largest private conglomerate, in...