Industrial Policy and Industrial Structure in the Czech Republic

Analyzing Industrial Energy Consumption in the Czech Republic

The logarithmic mean Divisia index decomposition method is used to analyze the changes in the energy consumption of the Czech industrial sector during the period of 1993 to 2011. The results show the energy consumption was mainly affected by the improvements in the energy efficiency (which, however, lost most of their momentum after 1999). The impacts of the changes in the structure exhibit two...

[Development, health-industrial complex and industrial policy].

This paper puts health questions within the context of national development and industrial policy. It follows the idea of structuralist, Marxist and Schumpeterian approaches, in which industry and innovations form determining factors for the dynamism in capitalist economies and relative positions within the world economy. All countries that have developed and started to compete under better con...

Industrial Policy

Industrial Policy and Growth

Introduction The paper will review the impact of industrial policy on growth in developing countries from the 1960s until the present. This is a propitious time to conduct such an assessment. Within policy-making and academic circles, extremely critical views of state intervention in general, and industrial policy in particular, are no longer as dominant, and have given way to more nuanced appr...

Regional Policy and Decentralization in the Czech Republic

EU accession has had an ambiguous impact on regionalization in the Czech Republic. While EU membership necessitated the creation of regional administrative structures to manage the Structural Funds, the role of new regional authorities was often undermined by the centralized nature of the accession process itself. Developments since accession have created a new dynamic in the debate over region...