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Climate change and industrial policy
Naudé, Wim - 2011
This paper explores the implications of climate change for industrial policy (IP). Five implications are discussed, namely the need for international coordination of IPs; for putting human development, and not emission targets, as the overriding objective of low-carbon IP; of stimulating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381960
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Trading places: employers, unions and the manufacture of voice
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
– especially union-only voice – has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071128
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Participation in organisations: economic approaches
Marsden, David; Cañibano, Almudena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Under the auspices of the debate about high performance work systems, it has been suggested that the evidence of … economics broadly understood. It includes a meta-survey of research on the effects of participation on performance since the … argued that this is due in part to consideration of a wider range of performance outcomes, improved data and methods, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071550
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Industry in Tanzania : performance, prospects, and public policy
Page, John M. - 2016
Tanzania ranks among the leading stars of the 'African growth miracle', but a sector that has been largely absent from the Tanzania success story is industry. Although growth of manufacturing has outpaced economic growth over the past decade, relative to international norms and its ambitious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437700
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Motorcycle parts and aftermarket industry regional value chain in Southern Africa
Mtanga, Sithembiso; McCamel, Richard - 2019
This paper provides an overview of the structure, key functions, and characteristics of the motorcycle parts and aftermarket industries in Southern Africa in order to identify challenges to and opportunities for growth in these industries. The research examines the end markets and utilization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003803
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South African gold mining and local procurement in Tanzania and Ghana
Smith, Michael Nassen; Osborne, Carilee; Moola, Zunaid; … - 2019
We examine the extent to which two of Africa’s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement policies to enhance backward linkages from the minerals sector. We assess the impact that evolving legislation in the gold industry has had on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122626
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Industrial clusters : the case for Special Economic Zones in Africa
Newman, Carol; Page, John M. - African Development Bank - 2017
recommendations to improve SEZs performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591990
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Structural transformation and inclusive growth : Kuznets' "developer's dilemma" in Indonesia
Kim, Kyunghoon; Mungsunti, Arriya; Sumner, Andrew; … - 2020
We focus on special characteristics of the manufacturing sector, in terms of employment generation and productivity growth, that enable the rapid, resilient economic catch-up of developing countries. We consider the 'developer's dilemma' and the relationship between manufacturing value added or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181082
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Structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth in Bangladesh
Raihan, Selim; Khan, Sunera Saba - 2020
-made garments sector: the performance of other industries has been rather weak. In order to become a sustained, inclusive driver of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198863
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Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth : the case of Chile
Solimano, Andrés; Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2019
This paper describes the structural transformations that Chile has experienced in the last 50 years and how they have contributed-or not-to inclusive growth and genuine economic modernization from a historical perspective. The empirical analysis of the paper shows a premature deindustrialization...
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