Literature manifest that Tanzania industrial policies were not satisfactorily executed to realize the intended goals for economic development. With that regard the interrogation of the influence of industrial policies to economic development in Tanzania become the discourse. The contemporary...

In this paper, we develop a multi-country open economy extension of the famous Big Push model for a closed economy by Murphy et al. (1989). We show under which conditions the global economy in our model is caught in a poverty trap, characterised by a low-income equilibrium from which an escape...

Analyzing case studies from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea this book highlights common characteristics of agriculture's role in East Asian development and the features particular to the political economy of each country