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A new deal for the climate? Lessons from the Inflation Reduction Act
Kauer, Pia - 2025
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed under the Biden administration in August 2022, is the biggest US climate bill to date. Its focus on subsidy-driven decarbonization incentives marks a potential turning point in US industrial policy and might prevent its repeal under the upcoming Trump...
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China, India and industrial policy for inclusive growth
Kaur, Inderjit N.; Singh, Nirvikar - 2013
This paper discusses a possible case for industrial policy, with special reference to the two emerging global giants, China and India. It begins with a clarification of the meaning of industrial policy, since not only does the term mean different things to different people, but the traditional...
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The labor market consequences of appropriate technology
De Souza, Gustavo - 2022
increases wage inequality but leads to greater production in developing countries. I study a Brazilian innovation program that … taxed the leasing of international technology to subsidize national innovation. I show that the program led firms to replace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014301985
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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff
Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018
We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohorts. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying...
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The product space: What does it say about the opportunities for growth and structural transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa?
Abdon, Arnelyn; Felipe, Jesus - 2011
In this paper we look at the economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the context of structural transformation. We use Hidalgo et al.'s (2007) concept of product space to show the evolution of the region's productive structure, and discuss the opportunities for growth and...
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Exports, capabilities, and industrial policy in India
Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav; Abdon, Arnelyn - 2010
An extensive literature argues that India's manufacturing sector has underperformed, and that the country has failed to industrialize; in particular, it has failed to take advantage of its laborabundant comparative advantage. India's manufacturing sector is smaller as a share of GDP than that of...
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Industrial policy space in emerging economies: The case of Chile's lithium industry and the energy and raw materials chapter in the EU-Chile free trade agreement
Dünhaupt, Petra; Gräf, Helena; Jiménez, Valeria; … - 2025
Adequate policy space is essential for resource-rich countries to move up the value chain and seize the opportunities presented by global decarbonization and the demand for low-carbon technologies. However, WTO rules, investment and free trade agreements (FTAs) deprive nonhegemonic powers of the...
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Deindustrialization from the center perspective: US trade and manufacturing in the last two decades
Rodousakis, Nikolaos; Yajima, Giuliano Toshiro; Soklis, … - 2024
issues, the US must shift toward a more sustainable and valueadded economy with a focus on innovation and investment in high …
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R&d subsidy and import substitution: Growing in the shadow of protection
de Souza, Gustavo - 2023
I study the effect of an innovation subsidy on the growth of firms in a developing country. Using administrative … microdata for Brazil and difference-in-differences, I find that innovation subsidies drive firm growth by facilitating firm … innovation subsidy, firms issue more patents, expand their workforce, and diversify their product line. However, these patents …
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Building the entrepreneurial state: A new framework for envisioning and evaluating a mission-oriented public sector
Mazzucato, Mariana - 2015
Today, countries around the world are seeking "smart" innovation-led growth, and hoping that this growth is also more … public policy in the economy - not only funding the "rate" of innovation, but also envisioning its "direction." It requires a … distribution of "risks and rewards." To approach the innovation challenge of the future, we must redirect the discussion, away from …
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