We discuss the considerable literature that has developed in recent years providing rigorous
evidence on how industrial policies work. This literature is a significant improvement over …

In this chapter we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries
benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across …

This is the first in an occasional series of DPR Debates, designed to illuminate specific
issues of international development policy. Each debate will bring together two well‐known …

Volumes 2A and 2B of The Handbook of Economic Growth summarize recent advances in
theoretical and empirical work while offering new perspectives on a range of growth …

This paper uses a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of temporary trade
protection on long-term economic development. I find that regions in the French Empire …

This paper is a first attempt to apply a robust political economy framework to explain when
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) can contribute to economic development. A robust political …

The structural transformation of a traditional economy dominated by primary activities into a
modern economy where high-productivity activities in manufacturing assume an important …

The debate on industrial policy (IP) has been characterized by a number of contractions over
the concept of industrial policy, its merits, contents and application. The purpose of this …

We investigate the roles of inward FDI and education in explaining country levels of
entrepreneurship. It is widely recognised that inward FDI may have positive but also …

This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the
field of international trade and economic growth. It examines a sequence of theoretical …