Competitiveness Strategy and Industrial Performance in Developing Countries: A Manual of Policy Analysis (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

✍ Scribed by G. Wignaraja

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Globalization and structural adjustment offer many opportunities for export orientated industrialization in developing economies. As a group, competitiveness in the developing countries has improved, but, while East Asian economies have had rapid export growth and technological upgrades, South Asian and African economies have lagged behind. Old structures, institutions, behavioural patterns and public policies are ill-adapted to deal with the challenges posed by technological change and economic liberalization. Consequently there is an urgent need for change in government and private sector attitudes and strategies.This volume seeks to generalise the lessons across developing country and enterprise cases, and sheds light on which trade and industrial strategies and instruments work best, and which do not work, in relation to manufacturing competitiveness.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Editor’s note......Page 13
Part I Introduction, concepts and benchmarking......Page 16
1 Introduction......Page 18
2 Competitiveness analysis and strategy......Page 30
3 Benchmarking competitiveness A first look at the MECI......Page 76
Part II Supply-side issues and policies for competitiveness......Page 108
4 Science, technology and innovation policy......Page 110
5 Industrial clusters and business development services for small and medium-sized enterprises......Page 146
6 Government policies towards foreign direct investment......Page 181
7 Financial sector policies for enterprise development......Page 213
Part III Incentive policies for competitiveness......Page 252
8 Privatisation, regulation and domestic competition policy......Page 254
9 International trade policies......Page 289
Index......Page 313

✦ Subjects

Финансово-экономические дисциплины;Мировая экономика;Международная экономика;