Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126357 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/163
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Ethiopia represents an excellent case study of recent industrial policy experimentation in Africa. The country is well known for its successful promotion of the cut-flower industry through business-government co-ordination. What is less known is that at nearly the same time it was also using co-ordination to promote the metal and engineering industry with little success. This study provides comparative analysis of the policy process and outcomes of the interventions in these two industries. Examining why one intervention worked and the other failed in the same political context and institutional setting provides a natural experiment to draw valuable lessons.
Subjects: 
industrial policy
state-business co-ordination
Ethiopia
Africa
JEL: 
O25
O55
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-884-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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