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Technical Change, the Shifting ‘Terrain of the Industrial’, and Digital Industrial Policy (2020)
Book Chapter
Andreoni, A. (2020). Technical Change, the Shifting ‘Terrain of the Industrial’, and Digital Industrial Policy. In A. Oqubay, C. Cramer, H.-J. Chang, & R. Kozul-Wright (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy (369-393). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198862420.013.15

Technical change is a major driver of structural transformation and industrial mutations within and across sectors of the economy. We show how, by deploying different concepts of sector—commodity/product, production/technology, or location-based taxo... Read More about Technical Change, the Shifting ‘Terrain of the Industrial’, and Digital Industrial Policy.

Local Ecosystems and Social Conditions of Innovative Enterprise (2020)
Book Chapter
Andreoni, A., & Lazonick, W. (2020). Local Ecosystems and Social Conditions of Innovative Enterprise. In J. Y. Lin, & A. Oqubay (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198850434.013.5

This chapter integrates the theory and history of localized economic development by summarizing the experiences of three iconic industrial districts: a) the Lancashire cotton textile district which in the last half of the nineteenth century enabled B... Read More about Local Ecosystems and Social Conditions of Innovative Enterprise.

Value chain directionality, upgrading, and industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sectors (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Boys, J., & Andreoni, A. Value chain directionality, upgrading, and industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sectors. Helsinki

With recent changes in the global economy, policy makers are increasingly turning from global value chains to regional and national value chains as drivers of structural transformation in the global South. This paper examines economic and social upgr... Read More about Value chain directionality, upgrading, and industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sectors.

Deindustrialisation reconsidered: Structural shifts and sectoral heterogeneity (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Tregenna, F., & Andreoni, A. Deindustrialisation reconsidered: Structural shifts and sectoral heterogeneity. London

As a stylised fact of deindustrialisation, the relationship between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the share of manufacturing in GDP and employment generally follows an invertedU pattern, across countries and over time. We analyse the changing dyna... Read More about Deindustrialisation reconsidered: Structural shifts and sectoral heterogeneity.

Governing data and digital platforms: regulations, competition and industrial policies, with sectoral case studies from South Africa (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Andreoni, A., & Roberts, S. Governing data and digital platforms: regulations, competition and industrial policies, with sectoral case studies from South Africa. Oxford

This paper addresses the implications of digital platforms for middle-income countries seeking to build advanced productive capabilities. To do so it develops a new ‘Digital Platform Dynamics’ framework to consider platform functions and platform pow... Read More about Governing data and digital platforms: regulations, competition and industrial policies, with sectoral case studies from South Africa.

Escaping the middle-income technology trap: A comparative analysis of industrial policies in China, Brazil and South Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., & Tregenna, F. (2020). Escaping the middle-income technology trap: A comparative analysis of industrial policies in China, Brazil and South Africa. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 54, 324-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.05.008

Instead of catching up with advanced economies, most middle-income countries have remained stuck in a middle-income trap. We identify and analyse the triple challenges of ‘breaking into’ the global economy, ‘linking up’ into global value chains while... Read More about Escaping the middle-income technology trap: A comparative analysis of industrial policies in China, Brazil and South Africa.

Industrial Policy in the 21st Century (2020)
Journal Article
Chang, H.-J., & Andreoni, A. (2020). Industrial Policy in the 21st Century. Development and Change, 51(2), 324-351. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12570

Industrial policy is back at the centre stage of policy debate, while the world is undergoing dramatic transformations. This article contributes to the debate by developing a new theory of industrial policy, incorporating some issues that have been n... Read More about Industrial Policy in the 21st Century.

Institutions and the Process of Industrialisation: Towards a Theory of Social Capability Development (2019)
Book Chapter
Chang, H.-J., & Andreoni, A. (2019). Institutions and the Process of Industrialisation: Towards a Theory of Social Capability Development. In M. Nissanke, & J. A. Ocampo (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Development Economics: Critical Reflections on Globalization and Development (409-439). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14000-7_12

Institutions were at the foundation of development economics, when it was first established as a separate branch of economics. Indeed, one important impetus behind the emergence of development economics was the recognition that developing countries h... Read More about Institutions and the Process of Industrialisation: Towards a Theory of Social Capability Development.

Illicit Financial Flows: theory and measurement challenges (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Khan, M., Andreoni, A., & Roy, P. Illicit Financial Flows: theory and measurement challenges. London

This Working Paper, by the Executive and Research Directors of SOAS-ACE, examines the problem of defining and measuring illicit financial flows, and the implications of this for policy-making.

Industrial policy in context: building blocks for an integrated and comparative political economy agenda (2018)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., Chang, H.-J., & Scazzieri, R. (2019). Industrial policy in context: building blocks for an integrated and comparative political economy agenda. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 48, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2018.11.003

This article introduces the special issue Frontiers of Industrial Policy by assessing the recent academic and policy debates and pointing to the need for a renewed industrial policy agenda centred on the structure-institution-policy nexus. We argue t... Read More about Industrial policy in context: building blocks for an integrated and comparative political economy agenda.