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Asia's industrial transformation : the role of manufacturing and global value chains

Felipe, Jesus - 2018

This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into manufacturing, and the sector diversified and upgraded its...

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Asia's industrial transformation : the role of manufacturing and global value chains

Felipe, Jesus - 2018

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Enhancing local content in Uganda's oil and gas industry

Sen, Ritwika - 2018

This paper analyses policy options to promote local content in Uganda as it transitions into an oil-producing country. It contends that productive linkages between oil and gas exporters and domestic suppliers in a range of "connected" goods and services sectors can be a source of broad-based...

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Industrial development in Asia : trends in industrialization and industrial policy experiences of developing Asia

Chang, Ha-joon; Zach, Kiryl - 2018

Industrial transformation of Asia arguably constitutes the most surprising and dramatic change in the global economy in the last fifty years. This paper provides an outline of some of the most important trends of this development and analyses selected national industrial policies that promoted...

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Does having the right visitor mix do the job? : applying an econometric shift-share model to regional tourism developments

Firgo, Matthias; Fritz, Oliver - 2016

important results: First, differences in long-run performance between regions are mostly related to idiosyncratic changes in the … several mega-events during the period observed seem to have left prolonged positive effects on the tourist performance of the … host regions. And third, performance appears uncorrelated with tourism intensity of a region. Thus, from a policy and …

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The "resurrection" of industrial policy in the European Union and its impact on industrial policy in the new member countries

Török, Ádám; Csuka, Gyöngyi; Kovács, Bernadett; … - 2013

The aim of this study is to consider the main factors affecting the industrial policy in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation, manufacturing, green growth and environment. The...

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Financing patterns of innovative SMEs and the perception of innovation barriers in Germany

Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - 2014

We analyze the role of public support in the financing pattern of R&D in German SMEs and their assessment of financing conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. In Germany, there is a diversity of overall well-funded technology-neutral and technology-specific...

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Green services and emergence and recovery from the global economic slowdown in developing Asian economies

Stoughton, Mark; Venkatachalam, Anbumozhi - 2010

services - such as waste disposal, energy, chemicals, and transport - into performance-based services in which service …

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How rich countries became rich and why poor countries remain poor : it's economic structure ... duh!

Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav; Abdon, Arnelyn - 2010

Becoming a rich country requires the ability to produce and export commodities that embody certain characteristics. We classify 779 exported commodities according to two dimensions: (1) sophistication (measured by the income content of the products exported); and (2) connectivity to other...

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Small and medium enterprises in Japan : surviving the long-term recession

Uchikawa, Shuji - 2009

The relationship between large enterprises (LEs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Japan has undergone major changes during the long-term recession since 1991. While SMEs still play the important role of supplying parts and components to LEs through subcontracting, many LEs have started...

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