Industrial policy and state-making: Brazil’s attempt at oil-based industrial development

[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 for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development

The point of departure of this paper is the hypothesis that we are in the midst of a change in the techno-economic paradigm. What we perceive as new challenges in a globalized world economy are in fact symptoms of the search for a new paradigm. There is some probability that a key feature of a new paradigm will be ecological sustainability. Therefore, a policy that tries to shape the structures...

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...

Industrial Productivity Scenario: An Evaluation of Industrial Estate at Vitthal Udyognagar in Anand District of Gujarat state, India

In the present age of cut-throat competition, it becomes highly necessary for an organization to be dynamic in the globalization era. This is possible only when the employees, employers and organizations are capable enough to cope up with the changing world scenario. In the rapidly changing environment, ‘human being’ is the most important and valuable resource to play vital role in every or...