The fourth edition of The Process of Economic Development offers a thorough and up-to-
date treatment of development economics. This landmark text will continue to be an …

The literature on the economics of the public sector (and the role of the State in the
economy) concentrates on how the government affects the performance of economic …

Since the mid-twentieth century, the national objective of India and Brazil has been to
develop industrial capabilities in essential sectors such as pharmaceuticals. At the outset …

Development economists and practitioners agree that close collaboration between business
and government improves industrial policy, yet little research exists on how best to organize …

The exact nature of industrial/innovation (I/I) policy challenges and the best way to address
them are unknown ex ante. This requires a degree of experimentation, which can be …

This paper presents the case of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), in Brazil, a state which
implemented a regional industrial policy (IP/RS) in the wind energy sector, motivated by the …

This paper analyzes the evolution of policies for technology catch-up through three periods:
the import-substitution period, the (augmented) Washington Consensus period and the post …

Access to affordable lifesaving medicines is considered a human right. This leads to a
question largely understudied in the catch-up literature on accumulation of industrial …

The research paper under review studies the various concepts of 'green economy'including
industrial and green technologies that could adopt to effect 'green economy'. The other …

Taking off with the discovery of antibiotics, the pharmaceutical industry emerged as a distinct
sector in the developed world in the last century, when research and development (R&D) …