Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Subject "Industrial policy"

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    • Hirschman and Irish industrial policy 

      Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
      In this article we examine the origins of Whitaker?s export oriented industrial policy and the political management of its implementation. Whitaker appointed academic economic advisors, including Louden Ryan, to a Capital ...

    • Industrial development policy in Northern Ireland: an evaluation of the IDB 

      Hamilton, Douglas (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)
      A number of studies have highlighted the depth of the economic and social problems which have persisted in Northern Ireland for many years (NIEC, 1989; Kennedy, Giblin and McHugh, 1988; Rowthorn and Wayne, 1988). Since, ...

    • Job generation and regional industrial policy in Ireland 

      Meyler, Aidan; Strobl, Eric (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2000)
      Irish industrial policy explicitly encouraged job generation in certain ?designated? areas via, amongst other things, preferential grant treatment, job targets and the building of advance factories in the IDA?s (Industrial ...

    • Labour market rents and Irish industrial policy 

      Walsh, Frank (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1999)
      This paper examines the issue of whether harmonising taxes across the traded and nontraded sectors is desirable. Preferential treatment for the traded sector might be justified if either the output response of subsidies ...

    • State, competition and industrial change in Ireland 1991-1999 

      O Riain, Sean (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)
      As job losses increased rapidly in 2003 amid calls for increased competitiveness, it becomes all the more crucial to understand the character and causes of such industrial upgrading that did occur in Ireland in the 1990s. ...

    • The cultural production of enterprise: understanding selectivity as cultural policy 

      Carr, Patricia (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)
      Within the context of a conceptualisation of the phenomenon of enterprise culture which focuses on the link between culture and government, this paper represents an attempt to make visible the cultural dimension of ...