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Policy Debates

Spatializing Industrial Policies: A View from the South

Pages 1385-1397 | Received 01 Apr 2006, Published online: 04 Dec 2008
 

Abstract

SEPULVEDA L. (2008) Spatializing industrial policies: a view from the South, Regional Studies. A new approach to industrial policy which advances the ‘spatial turn’ of industrial policy thinking has matured and gained considerable attention in both developed and developing countries. However, the notion of ‘spatiality’ forwarded by the new approach is one which has essentially emerged from industrialized Northern economies and this raises questions relating to the largely uncritical way in which it is being adopted in developing countries. Drawing on original research conducted in Argentina, the paper demonstrates that without a context-sensitive industrial policy and a sound macro-economy, the policy tenets forwarded by the new approach are, in the South, condemned to fail.

SEPULVEDA L. (2008) La géographie des politiques industrielles: une perspective méridionale, Regional Studies. Une nouvelle façon d'aborder la politique industrielle qui propose le ‘tour géographique’ de la pensée quant à la politique industrielle a mûri et prête beaucoup d'attention dans les pays développés et en voie de développement. Cependant, la notion d'‘effets géographiques’, que propose la nouvelle façon, ressortit essentiellement des pays nordiques industrialisés et cela remet en question la façon non critique dont les pays développés l'adoptent. Puisant dans des recherches originales menées en Argentine, cet article cherche à démontrer que dans l'absence d'une politique industrielle qui est sensible au contexte et d'une macroéconomie solide, les principes de la politique proposés sont voués à l'échec dans les pays méridionaux.

Politique industrielle Pays en voie de développement Regroupements Régions

SEPULVEDA L. (2008) Einführung der Räumlichkeit in der Industriepolitik: die Perspektive des Südens, Regional Studies. Sowohl in den Industrie- als auch in den Entwicklungsländern ist ein neuer, stark beachteter Ansatz der Industriepolitik herangereift, in dem für ein ‘räumliches Denken' in der Industriepolitik plädiert wird. Allerdings ist der in diesem neuen Ansatz propagierte Begriff der ‘Räumlichkeit' im Wesentlichen in der Wirtschaft des industrialisierten Nordens entstanden, wodurch sich Fragen im Zusammenhang mit der relativ unkritischen Übernahme des Begriffs in den Entwicklungsländern ergeben. Anhand von in Argentinien durchgeführten Originalstudien wird in diesem Beitrag nachgewiesen, dass die vom neuen Ansatz befürworteten politischen Grundsätze im Süden ohne eine kontextsensitive Industriepolitik und solide Makroökonomie zum Scheitern verurteilt sind.

Industriepolitik Entwicklungsländer Cluster Regionen

SEPULVEDA L. (2008) Espacializando políticas industriales: una perspectiva desde el sur, Regional Studies. Un nuevo enfoque sobre política industrial que propone un ‘giro espacial’ sobre el pensamiento de la materia, ha madurado y ganado considerable atención tanto en países desarrollados como en desarrollo. Sin embargo, la noción de ‘espacialidad’ ha surgido esencialmente desde economías industrializadas del norte, lo que genera dudas sobre la forma acrítica en la cual el nuevo enfoque está siendo adoptado en países en desarrollo. Basado en una investigación original realizada en la Argentina, el artículo demuestra que sin una política industrial sensible al contexto y una sólida macroeconomía, los principios propuestos por el nuevo enfoque están, en el Sur, condenados al fracaso.

Política industrial Países en desarrollo Clusters Regiones

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Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank Claire Collins, Francisco Gatto and Stephen Syrett for their observations and suggestions on earlier drafts of this article. His gratitude also goes to the two anonymous referees who provided helpful comments.

Notes

The use of the word ‘new’ to refer to ‘new industrial policy thinking’ does not imply a view that there is one single new form of IP thinking (Bianchi and Labory, Citation2006), but rather several related new approaches that share certain common characteristics.

Governance can be defined as the complex art of steering multiple agencies, institutions and systems which are both operationally autonomous and structurally coupled through various forms of reciprocal interdependence (Jessop, Citation1997). In practical terms, governance describes the increased involvement of non-governmental actors in public policy-making and delivery, notably through network actors (Bache and Flinders, Citation2004).

The currency-board scheme known as ‘Convertibility’ fixed the peso by law and limited the money supply to the stock of hard-currency reserves.

The lack of statistical data in Argentina and in DCs at large is a recurrent problem hence studies on local/regional economies frequently rely on primary sources of information.

Mr Ubieto (Tigre's Mayor) won three consecutive elections with 70–80% of votes in each election between the late 1980s and 2001.

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