Industrial Policy and Sustainable Growth

Abstract

This volume looks at the critical issues of industrial policy and sustainability. It assesses the gap between how developed and developing countries have integrated sustainability issues in their industrial policies, and how they should have ideally done so. The book looks at the specific issues of middle income trap, levels of industrialization and the distribution of manufacturing activities among nations, and presents analysis of sector and country specific policy case studies in areas such as health, energy, medical devices, aviation, automobile manufacturing. The volume also examines trade policies and their impact on industry and environment, and elaborate on how industrial policies involve selective direct and indirect sectoral policies which play a role in assisting policy makers manage objectives of catch up and sustainability.-- Business Environment, Incentives, Ownership and Firms Performances: Evidence from SSA Countries -- Renewable Energy and Green Industrial policy: opportunities for developing countries -- The connection between organisational safety culture and sustainability -- An ICT-based Microfinance Model as a Catching-up Strategy for Developing Countries. The Case of Latin America -- South African Government Initiatives towards a Transition to Green Economy.Can Green Growth Offer a Cure for Income Inequality? -- National Development Planning, Industrial Policy and Sustainable Growth -- Challenges in Indonesia and Malaysia: A Comparative Historical Analysis -- How nations de-industrialize: the effects of poorly implemented energy policies on sustainable industrial growth -- Financial System, Industrial Ladder and Sustainable Growth -- The Need For Sustainable Development Planning in the Republic of Macedonia -- Territory and Innovation. Industrial policies for peripheral regions in a globalised world -- Serbia's sustainable development strategy and industrial policy dur-ing the negotiations for accession to the EU and WTO and their impact on industry and economic growth -- Banking Sector Reform and Industrial Growth: A Comparative Analysis of India and China -- Safety, Health and Environmental Management (SHEM); The Evolement and Challenges of Sustainability Pertaining to Industries in the Case of Zımbabwe -- A Revisit of Trade-Growth Nexus: Evidence from Heterogeneous Panel Methods Robust to Cross Sectional Dependence and Structural Breaks -- Development Strategies, Industrial Policies amidst the Pervasive Use of Internet -- Reforming the Regulatory Regime for Infrastructure Investments -- Economic Growth and Education Stock in East Asia -- Analysis of the use of suitable solutions for Ukraine UNIDO tasks in the field of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID).