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Author Salazar-Xirinachs, José Manuel

Title Transforming Economies : Making Industrial Policy Work for Growth, Jobs and Development
Published Geneva : International Labour Office, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (411 pages)
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Industrial policy, productive transformation and jobs:Theory, history and practice; Part I: Productive transformation: Models and policies; 1. Latin American structuralism and production development strategies; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 ECLAC, macroeconomic analysis and structural change; 1.3 Economic growth and structural change; 1.4 Conclusions; 2. Making industrial policy work for development
2.1 Fostering economic growth in developing countries: The evolution of development thinking2.2 What are the principal tenets of successful industrial policy?; 2.3 Concluding remarks; 3. The role of industrial and exchange rate policiesin promoting structural change, productivity and employment; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Employment, structural change and growth in developing economies; 3.3 Patterns of structural change, growth and employment in the manufacturing sector; 3.4 Where do workers go? Aggregate productivity and employment; 3.5 Concluding remarks
Appendix: Theoretical framework: Demand, productivity and structural change regimes4. A theory of capabilities for productive transformation: Learning to catch up; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A dynamic concept of catching up; 4.3 A knowledge-based concept of capabilities; 4.4 A concept of collective learning; 4.5 Design and implementation of learning strategies; 4.6 Conclusions; 5. Industrial policy in the era of vertically specialized industrialization; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Trade in intermediates, vertical specialization and upgrading; 5.3 Industrial policy after the Washington Consensus
5.4 Industrial policy and the challenges of VSI5.5 Conclusions; Part II: Rethinking industrial development strategies: The capabilities dimension; 6. Industrial development strategies in Costa Rica: When structural change and domestic capability accumulation diverge; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The development of technological capabilities in small latecomers in the time of globalization: Analytical considerations; 6.3 The uneven accumulation of technological capabilities in Costa Rica under ISI; 6.4 Structural change and domestic capabilities under the new economic model: Diverging trajectories
6.5 Social capability accumulation under the new economic model: Falling behind private sector needs6.6 Conclusions; 7. Skills development strategies and the high road to development inthe Republic of Korea; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Economic development and skills development; 7.3 Government policy on education and training; 7.4 New challenges call for new responses; 7.5 Policy implications; 8. Building capabilities in the software service industry in India: Skill formation and learning of domestic enterprises in value chains; 8.1 Introduction
Summary This book helps connect the dots between economic theory, the role of capabilities, the lessons from history and the practical challenges of design and implementation of industrial policies. In so doing it provides an excellent policy roadmap for anyone interested in the challenge of promoting catch-up growth and productive transformation
Notes 8.2 The Indian software industry: Trajectories of growth and upgrading in global value chains
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Subject BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
Commercial policy
Commerce.
Business & Economics.
International Commerce.
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Commercial policy
Subject Eastern Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Nübler, Irmgard
Kozul-Wright, Richard
ISBN 9789221285663
9221285669