Increased diversification of commodity exports, and increased numbers of high-value commodity exports, are needed to generate employment and meet the Government of Rwanda´s targets for poverty reduction. This chapter presents evidence that increased diversification of exports is linked to...

We construct a panel data at the state level in Mexico for the years 2006, 2008 and 2011 in order to investigate the impact that entry deregulation efforts have on the cost of opening new businesses in Mexico, where this cost is taken from the Doing Business in Mexico report of the World Bank....

The paper suggest a competition policy agenda strategy for industrializing countries, i.e. countries that do not have fully established market economies yet but already have progressed some way on the road to industrialization. It especially emphasizes that some features of advanced competition...

Asturias is undergoing a transition from its historical role as a mining and steelmaking hub, with the emerging green energy sector offering new opportunities for growth. At the same time, the region exhibits substantial territorial imbalances between its central metropolitan area which...

Asturias está experimentando una transición desde su papel histórico como centro minero y siderúrgico, hacia un sector emergente de energías verdes ofreciendo nuevas oportunidades de crecimiento. Al mismo tiempo, la región presenta desequilibrios territoriales significativos entre su área...

Increased diversification of commodity exports, and increased numbers of high-value commodity exports, are needed to generate employment and meet the Government of Rwanda´s targets for poverty reduction. This chapter presents evidence that increased diversification of exports is linked to...

This dissertation is anchored in the disruptive impact of China’s resource-based economic expansion over the last two decades. Whilst the country’s economic growth follows traditional patterns of development, the size of China’s population challenges the small-country assumption inherent...

The development of Abu Dhabi and Dubai during past years seems breathtaking. Both emirates pursue a strategy of diversifying their economic structure and thus of becoming less dependent on oil and gas. The obvious goal is to secure their prosperity for an era beyond oil. Diversification is a...

During the past two decades, the “Washington Consensus” has been the dominant recipe for unleashing economic growth in developing countries. In view of the strong criticism mounted against it, it seems to have lost prominence recently. The success of the East Asian newly industrialized...

After it has been discovered as a vehicle of economic policy in industrialized countries at the beginning of the 1990s, cluster policy has attracted the attention of development policy. Indeed, the case for using cluster policies to promote economic development is in principle not confined to...