25 January 2016
The obstacles to be overcome in order to make industrial policy work in developing countries
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Amanda Janoo, capital, developing countries, development, economists, FDI, indsutrial policy, industrial policy, policymakers, policymaking, taxation, UNIDO
18 October 2012
Making It profiles Viet Nam, Asia’s ‘rising dragon’, and interviews Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged APEC, ASEAN, Asia, Doi Moi, economic growth, FDI, high value-added manufacturing sectors, industrial diversification, industrial policy, Making It, manufacturing, market-based socialist economy, middle-income trap, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, structural change, technological change, technology ladder, trade liberalization, UNIDO, Viet Nam, Viet Nam Industrial Competitiveness Report 2011, WTO
10 May 2011
Fátima Fialho, Cape Verde’s Minister of Tourism, Industry and Energy, on how her country graduated from the list of LDCs, and how it plans to develop as a middle-income country
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged African Development Bank Group, African development progress, article, beach hotels, Benito Mussolini, botswana, business environment, Cape Verde, commerce, conditions, deficit, develop, Donald Kaberuka, Economic Development, employment, enterprise, entrepreneurship, Fátima Fialho, FDI, feature, fisheries, foreign investment, GDP, global crisis, government policy, government services, Industrial Development, Industry and Energy, international trade, issue 5, ldc, least developed countries, light manufacturing industries, Making It, middle-income country, Minister of Tourism, money, ODA, official development assistance, oil, organization, poverty, private sector, privatization, remittances, resource, revenue, Sal, services sector, small population, trade, transport, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, World Trade Organization, WTO
25 February 2011
How sub-Saharan African countries can seize the new opportunities to advance their own development through trade with China
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 1990s, Africa, agriculture, Cape Verde, chemicals, China, Chinese Ministry of Commerce, climate, commodity price shock, comparative advantage, competition, development, economic recovery, éducation, emerging economies, engine of development, environment, EU, Europe, European Union, export, FDI, financial crisis, food, foreign direct investment, GDP, Ghana, Global Competitiveness Index, global economy, government, growth rate, high-income countries, human, import, Industrial Development Organization, investment, issue 5, Jiying Plastic Products, Kenya, labour-intensive, lower-middle income countries, machinery, Making It, Mali, man-made products, manufactured goods, market, metals, natural, north-south trade, ore, petroleum, policy, raw material, resources, Rwanda, south-south trade, statistics, sub-Saharan, technology, trade, trade growth, transport equipment, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, vuvuzela, world, World Bank, world cup 2010, World Economic Forum, Xiao Ye, Zhejiang province
11 November 2010
Debapriya Bhattacharya explains why economic growth in the LDCs has failed to lift enough poor people out of poverty
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, assistance, bottom billion, Centre for Global Development, criterion, Debapriya Bhattacharya, development, economic vulnerability, economy, enrollment, export, FDI, fisheries, flows, foreign direct investment, forestry, GDP, globalization, GNI, health, homelessness, human capital, Industrial Development, interview, Istanbul, jobs, Lawrence MacDonald, ldc, least developed countries, May 2011, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, modern sector, mortality rate, paul collier, population, productive growth, quality, remoteness, trade, Turkey, United Nations
11 November 2010
Wim Naudé warns that entrepreneurship policies can be fraught with potential pitfalls
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Brazil, business, China, commodity prices, developing countries, development, Doing Business report, economic growth, employment, entrepreneurship, FDI, financial crisis, government, income, India, infrastructure, institutions, investment, issue 4, labour, lobbying, market, micro and small enterprises, MSE, Nathan Leff, policy, poverty, productivity, state-owned, tax rates, technology, the Economist, United Nations University, UNU-WIDER, USA, William Lazonick, Wim Naudé, World Bank, World Institute for Development Economics Research
4 August 2010
Industrial policy has a key role to play in the transition to a resource-efficient, low-carbon growth trajectory.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged beijing consensus, Brazil, China, Dani Rodrik, discovery process, dogmatic prescriptions, economic crisis, emerging economies, FDI, Field Operations Division, foreign direct investment, green industry, India, industrial policy, industry, investment, Issue 3, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Krugman, LDCs, least developed countries, low-carbon growth, Lütkenhorst, pragmatism, Regional Strategies, resources, Sir Nicholas Stern, stakeholders, State Environmental Protection Agency, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Viet Nam, Washington Consensus