The paper examines the tax-credit programme incorporated in the Industrial Plan introduced by the Lopez-Portillo administration (1976-82). It discusses the objectives of industrial planning in Mexico at that time, and in particular the attempt to use fiscal incentives to guide private sector...

Some of the implications of Japan's post-war development for contemporary developing countries are explored. Whilst acknowledging the qualitative differences in economic structure between Japan in 1945 and today's developing countries, the author argues that many of Japan's decisions on economic...