The practice of industrial policy : : government-business coordination in Africa and East Asia / / John Page and Finn Tarp.

This work examines how African policy makers might develop better coordination between the public and private sectors to identify the constraints to faster structural transformation, and to design, implement, and monitor policies to remove them.

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Superior document:Studies in development economics
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Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Studies in development economics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages) :; illustrations, tables, charts; digital file(s).
Notes:This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Overview and insights / John Page and Finn Tarp
  • Part I. Coordination and industrial policy
  • - 2. Industrial policy, learning, and development / Joseph E. Stiglitz
  • 3. Coordination through an Asian lens / Justin Yifu Lin and Khuong Minh Vu
  • 4. State-business relations as drivers of economic performance / Alberto Lemma and Dirk Willem te Velde
  • 5. State capability and prospects for close coordination: considerations for industrial policy in Africa / Rachel M. Gisselquist
  • Part II. Coordination mechanisms in Asia
  • 6. Korea's evolving business-government relationship / Eun Mee Kim
  • 7. The industrial policy experience of the electronics Industry in Malaysia / Rajah Rasiah
  • 8. Case studies of decentralized coordination in China / Hinh T. Dinh
  • 9. The political economy of industrial development in Viet Nam: impact of state-business relationship on industrial performance, 1986-2013 / Tu-Anh Vu-Thanh
  • Part III. Building coordination in Africa
  • 10. A natural experiment of industrial policy: floriculture and the metal and engineering industries in Ethiopia, Mulu Gebreeyesus
  • 11. Policy coordination and growth traps in a middle-income country setting: the case of South Africa / Haroon Bhorat, Aalia Cassim, and Alan Hirsch
  • 12. Special economic zones in Africa: political economy challenges and solutions / Thomas Farole and Lotta Moberg
  • 13. Ghana's rxperiments with business-government coordination / Ernest Aryeetey and Nkechi S. Owoo
  • 14. Importing coordination: Africa's Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils / John Page.