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Manufacturing revolutions : industrial policy and industrialization in South Korea

Lane, Nathan - 2024

I study the impact of industrial policy on industrial development by considering an important episode during the East Asian miracle: South Korea’s heavy and chemical industry (HCI) drive, 1973–1979. Based on newly assembled data, I use the introduction and termination of industrial policies...

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Modi's "Make in India" industrial reform policy and East Asian flying-geese paradigm

Nam, Chang-woon; Nam, Sumin; Steinhoff, Peter - 2017

-tech industries and modern services. Moreover issues like world-market uncertainty discouraging export activities; poverty …

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The green industrial revolution : investment pathways to decarbonize the industrial sector in Europe

Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023

The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...

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Spatial concentration of manufacturing firms in China

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Zhao, Zhao - 2014 - This version, June 2014

Applying the methodology developed by Duranton and Overman (2005, 2008), we analyze localization and dispersion of firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our...

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Industrial policy and the great divergence

Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023

We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....

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Carbon Leakage and capacity-based allocations : is the EU right?

Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Quirion, Philippe - 2012

based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best …

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A touch of sophistication : FDI and unit values of exports

Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2009

The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more "sophisticated" products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting...

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Reopening Pandora's box in search of a WTO-compatible industrial policy? : the Brazil - taxation dispute

Ornelas, Emanuel; Puccio, Laura - 2019

The Brazil-Taxation dispute concerns the complaints taken to the World Trade Organisation by the European Union and …

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World heritage: where are we? : an empirical analysis

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2010

An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered "balanced" from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …

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Spatial inequality and development : is there an inverted-U relationship?

Lessmann, Christian - 2011 - This version: October 2011

This paper studies the hypothesis of an inverted-U-shaped relationship between spatial inequality and economic development. The theory of Kuznets (1955) and Williamson (1965) suggests that (spatial) inequality first increases in the process of development, then peaks, and then decreases. To test...

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