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Impact of the ASEAN Economic Community on ASEAN Production Networks

Kornkarun Cheewatrakoolpong, Chayodom Sabhasri, and Nath Bunditwattanawong Working Paper No: 409, 21 February 2013 Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia results from market-driven forces such as vertical specialization and higher production costs in the home countries and institutional-led reasons such as free trade agreements. This paper examines two [...]

Manufacturing Trade Deficit and Industrial Policy in India

by Sudip Chaudhury Economic and Political Weekly, February 23, 2013 The manufacturing trade balance in India did not worsen after the economic reforms started in 1991. This was because of the successful growth of industries such as pharmaceuticals which the earlier planning strategy helped to develop. The reforms nevertheless changed the structure of demand in [...]

Manufacturing Trade Deficit and Industrial Policy in India

by Sudip Chaudhury IIMC Woking Paper no.720, January 2013 Manufacturing trade balance in India did not worsen after the economic reforms started in 1991. In fact it improved till the early 2000s. The paper argues that this is not due to the reforms of the 1990s or the 1980s. It is rather the result of [...]

India Social Enterprise Landscape Report

Published by Asian Development Bank, August 2012 Social enterprises hold the potential to make India’s spectacular growth story work better for its poor citizens. India’s rapidly growing economy has not managed to alleviate extreme poverty, which encompasses nearly half the country’s population. Reasons for this situation include inadequate infrastructure, unreliable state delivery of affordable education and [...]

The Importance of Manufacturing in Economic Development: Past, Present and Future Perspectives

by Wim Naude and Adam Szirmai UNU-MERIT Workin Paper No. 20102-041, May 2012 The structural transformation of a traditional economy dominated by primary activities into a modern economy where high-productivity activities in manufacturing assume an important role remains a defining feature of economic development. The challenges to attain such structural transformation may be more daunting [...]

Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization

by Zoltan J. Ács and Wim Naudé UNU-MERIT Working Papers #2012-021 Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of stateowned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be a [...]

Effects of licensing reform on firm innovation : evidence from India

by Murat Seker WB Policy Research WP No.5876, November 2011 The regulatory environment in a country can affect firm performance. This study investigates the impact of a particular regulation, namely license requirements for certain firm activities, on the innovation performance of Indian firms. First it presents a model of firm and industry evolution that explains [...]

Industrial Policy in the Twenty-First Century

John Weiss WIDER Working Paper 2011/55 , September 2011 Industrial policy has attracted considerable controversy in the development context. This paper makes a case for a pragmatic and limited approach to interventions as a means of stimulating industrialization in the context of current and future challenges facing newly industrializing economies. It begins with a simple [...]

Has Deregulation Increased Investment in Infrastructure?: Firm-level evidence from OECD countries

Sónia Araújo OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 892 This paper investigates the role played by deregulation on firms’ investment decisions in infrastructure sectors. The analysis covers the period  1980-2006, which was characterised by increased liberalisation and privatisation across OECD countries. We assess the relationship of different dimensions of the regulatory framework, such as the [...]

A Thousand Industries In A Thousand Days?State Business Relations and The Puzzle of Orissa’s Industrial Performance

By G. Alivelu CESS Working Paper No.97, March 2011 In this paper, we document the phenomenon of ‘two types of industrialisation’ in Orissa where a fast growing resource based manufacturing sector has co-existed with a stagnant non-resource based manufacturing sector. We attempt to understand this puzzle – when an abundance of policy initiatives by successive [...]

Industrial Upgrading and Global Recession: Evidence of Hard Disk Drive and Automotive Industries in Thailand

Archanun Kohpaiboon and Nipon Poapongsakorn ADBI Working Paper Series No. 283 May 2011 This paper illustrates the upgrading experiences of the automotive and hard disk drive (HDD) industries in Thailand, chosen because of their outstanding export performance in the developing world. An understanding of their upgrading experiences can shed some light on the ongoing debate [...]

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