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Privatization and regional distribution of manufacturing in Turkey
Dogruel, Fatma; Dogruel, Suut - 2011
economic policies: The reform process included not only financial liberalization and trade reforms, but also the privatization … advocated privatization as a "must" policy tool. The paper explores the effects of privatization on regional growth of Turkish … or substitute of the private sector. The findings show that privatization has no perverse effects on the development of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320586
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Privatization and regional distribution of manufacturing in Turkey
Doğruel, Fatma; Doğruel, A. S. - 2011
economic policies: The reform process included not only financial liberalization and trade reforms, but also the privatization … advocated privatization as a "must" policy tool. The paper explores the effects of privatization on regional growth of Turkish … or substitute of the private sector. The findings show that privatization has no perverse effects on the development of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008938534
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Cluster Policy as a Development Strategy. Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa
Benner, Maximilian - 2012
Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858050
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Post-privatisation corporate performance in Poland : evidence from companies privatized in 2008–2011
Błaszczyk, Barbara; Patena, Wiktor - 2015
explore the effect of privatization on each company's value. The outcomes concerning the larger group of companies are partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011706295
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Productive development policies in Argentina
Sánchez, Gabriel; Butler, Inés; Rozemberg, Ricardo - 2011
In contrast to the limited impact of aggregate-level productive development policies (PDPs) in Argentina, micro-level PDPs in several sectors have proven highly successful. This study seeks to understand how these PDPs succeeded in a challenging environment, what kinds of mechanisms were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246546
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Productive development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean : the case of Mexico
Baz, Verónica; Capelo, María Cristina; Centeno, Rodrigo; … - 2010
While Mexico has potential to grow rapidly, its economic growth has remained low for the past three decades. There is no consensus on the country s development path or on how to achieve specific goals. Since the policy debate remains ideological and lacks pragmatism, productive development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246554
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Industrial policy in Guatemala : a case of policy inertia under changing paradigms
Cuevas, Mario A.; Lee, Sigfrido; Pineda, Bismarck - 2010
This paper reviews productive development policies (PDPs) in Guatemala, focusing on the alleged justification of existing programs in terms of the market or government failures they are meant to address. An effort is made to identify how the different instruments complement or contradict each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246555
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Institutions and Asia's development : the role of norms and organizational power
Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2018
The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later contributions from institutional economics and developmental state theory. Despite much progress, the dominant approaches do not agree about the institutions that matter nor do they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011922086
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New industrial policy and the extractive industries
Dietsche, Evelyn - 2017
Industrial policy is back. Advocates for industrial policy argue that the important question is not whether such policies should be applied at all, but how to design and implement them. For the extractive industries this development poses a challenge. First, there is the argument that host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776473
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Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Costa Rica
Cornick, Jorge; Jimenez, Jorge; Román, Marcela - 2014
Public-private collaboration in productive development policy in Costa Rica frequently takes the form of policy co-governance: an autonomous institution in charge of policy for a particular economic sector is created, with a board of directors comprising representatives from both the public and...
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