This comparative case study of textiles discusses many different topics related to productivity, technology, and industrial development and strategy, including: technological and economic issues in cotton textile production; best practice, and the source of deviations from it; the Kenyan textile sector; the Philippine textile sector; productivity differentials; and project design. In conclusion, the author also offers guidelines for policy and raises several issues involved in the transfer of technology.

Productivity, Technology, and Industrial Development: A Case Study in Textiles (A World Bank Research Publication)

Pack, Howard

Business & Money

Oxford University Press

Structural change and economic policy in Israel (A Publication of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University)

Economics

Yale University Press

Technology Transfer: New Issues, New Analysis

Politics & Social Sciences

Heston, Alan W.

Politics & Government

Sage Pubns

Globalization reigns supreme as a description of recent economic transformation―and it carries many meanings. In the policy realm, the orthodox terms of engagement have been enshrined in the "Washington consensus." But disappointing results in Latin America and transitional economies―plus the Asian financial crisis―have shaken the faith in Washington and elsewhere. One response has been to hark back to the more statist policies that the consensus marginalized. In this regard, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are promoted as the poster nations that have derived great benefits from increasing integration with the international economy, without surrendering national autonomy in the economic or cultural spheres, effectively beating the West at its own game. The fundamental questions addressed in this monograph are whether industrial policy was indeed a major source of growth in these three economies, and if so, can it be replicated under current institutional arrangements, and if so, is it worth replicating, or, would developing countries today be better off embracing the suitably refined orthodoxy?

Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons from Asia (Policy Analyses in International Economics)

Noland, Marcus

Peterson Institute for International Economics

The tragic events of 9/11 and the subsequent war in Iraq have focused international attention on a nexus of problems involving economic underperformance, problematic internal politics, and externalization of domestic dissent in the Muslim world. This book examines the economics of the Middle East, with the aim of identifying changes to economic policy that could address at least the economic component of the challenges facing this part of the globe. The authors analyze the interaction of trade, productivity growth, and the political difficulties that may ensue as these countries move towards greater openness. Relevant comparisons are drawn from the experience of the transition economies and India on potentially successful policies and those likely to exacerbate existing problems.

The Arab Economies in a Changing World

Compared to other regions of the world, the Middle East was once unique in its combination of authoritarianism and stultifying stability: No longer. Beginning in Tunisia, a wave of political upheaval has rolled across the region, reaching Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and other countries caught between rising expectations and their antediluvian political systems, abetted by pan-Arab news channels and social networking media. This book examines the economics of the Middle East, with the aim of identifying changes to economic policy that could address at least the economic component of the challenges facing this part of the globe. The authors analyze the interaction of trade, productivity growth, and the political difficulties that may ensue as these countries move towards greater openness. Relevant comparisons are drawn from the experience of the transition economies and India on potentially successful policies and those likely to exacerbate existing problems. This new second edition contains a new introduction from Mohamed A. El-Erian and a new postscript.

The Arab Economies in a Changing World (Peterson Institute for International Economics - Publication)

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