Policies for industrial progress in developing countries

This book is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of authors who have had practical experience with industrial policy in both developing and industrialized countries. The essays analyze the principal policies that influence the course and pace of industrialization, and identify the practical constraints on policy formulation. The book is intended primarily for administrators and decisionmakers, to assist them in choosing among policy alternatives. It is accordingly organized along lines of govenmental administrative responsibility, with chapters on trade, finance, labor and technology, taxation, licensing and other controls, public enterprises, infrastructure and the location of industry, as well as industrial links with agriculture and the international environment. The use of mathematics and sophisticated models has been avoided in this attempt to bridge the chasm between theoretical concepts and the practical formulation policy.