Industrial policy: Old and new issues

Arbeitspapier

The debate on industrial policy (IP) has been characterized by a number of contractions over the concept of industrial policy, its merits, contents and application. The purpose of this exploratory paper is to review the debate on IP. Outlining the concept and instruments of industrial policy, the paper reviews the evolution of IP over time, and discusses the current tension between the theory and practice of IP. Contrasting 'old' and 'new' issues in the debate, a tentative conclusion is that a fragile consensus on IP is within reach. This implies that the future debate - the 'new' issues - on IP will need to be increasingly concerned with (i) the 'how' of IP rather than the 'why' and (ii) with the new challenges and trends that will shape the content of IP.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-344-0
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2010/106

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology ; Regulation and Industrial Policy: General ; Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods ; Industrial Policy ; Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General ; Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change; Industrial Price Indices ; Entrepreneurship ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; International Fiscal Issues; International Public Goods
• Thema: industrial policy ; structural transformation ; trade ; development ; least developed countries

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Naudé, Wim
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/54072
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ