<span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">This paper presents a historical and empirical account of the role played by government</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">intervention in the form of industrial policies in spurring development and growth in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">developing countries in the last fifty years. Adopting the taxonomy proposed in Cimoli et</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">alt. (2008), it describes the set...</span></span>