Designing and Negotiating Industrial Policy: Prospects and Challenges for State-led Development in the 21st Century
Many developing countries have recently adopted a swathe of development strategies ranging from extremely selective to non-discretionary, functional policies – some if not all of which constitute what we may term ‘industrial policy’.
The collection provides an overview on the state of the art about new industrial policy and the place of politics in contemporary analysis of state intervention in the global political economy.
The collection offers theoretical insights about the principles and policy design of industrial strategies that can be applied to the twenty-first century. Crucially, the authors draw from their extensive fieldwork experience to examine contemporary challenges in promoting structural transformation, and in so doing, provide new empirical evidence to analyse the causal effects of politics in industrialisation in the Global South.
The collection contributes to defend the case for an industrial policy approach in the study of economic development.
Edited by
Jewellord T. Nem Singh(International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, Netherlands)