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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Import Substitution"”.
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Import-substitution industrialization in Turkey
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Import Substitution Industrialization:Case Study of Zambia
… like most less developed countries, opted for import substitution industrialization (ISI) as a strategy of economic advancement. The success of ISI performance in Zambia would have resulted in the abundance rather than scarcity of foreign exchange; economic diversification;resolution of the …
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Import Substitution Industrialization:Case Study of Zambia
… like most less developed countries, opted for import substitution industrialization (ISI) as a strategy of economic advancement. The success of ISI performance in Zambia would have resulted in the abundance rather than scarcity of foreign exchange; economic diversification;resolution of the …
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An Input-Output Study of Import Substitution in Spain
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Explaining the increase of competitiveness in the Colombian car industry after the end of import substitution industralization [sic] policies
At the beginning of the decade of the nineties, Import Substitution Industrialization - ISI- policies were dismantled all over Latin America, including Colombia. This meant that tariff protection for locally produced products were lowered and that cheap imports increased. For the motor vehicle …
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The efficacy of incorporating the import substitution industrialisation (ISI) theory into cooperatives: a strategy to enhance rural development in the King Cetshwayo District Municipality, South Africa.
… study looks at the efficacy of incorporating the import substitution industrialisation (ISI) theory into cooperatives, as a strategy to enhance rural development in the King Cetshwayo district municipality, South Africa. Studies indicate that people in the rural communities of less economically …
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Petroleum, alcohol, and energy substitution in Brazil: Theoretical and empirical issues
… Issues related to exploration, exploitation and import of crude have received special attention by Brazilian decision makers. In the past decade, an additional relevant issue was brought into play by the oil crisis. An import substitution program for energy was implemented by the development of …
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Total factor productivity in Indonesian manufacturing, 1975-1993
… productivity growth coincided with periods of import substitution. It is also shown that economic deregulation from the mid 1980s enhanced TFP growth. Further decomposition of aggregate value added growth analysis reveals that, prior to the deregulation era; a considerable proportion of output …
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Total factor productivity in Indonesian manufacturing, 1975-1993
… productivity growth coincided with periods of import substitution. It is also shown that economic deregulation from the mid 1980s enhanced TFP growth. Further decomposition of aggregate value added growth analysis reveals that, prior to the deregulation era; a considerable proportion of output …
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Import/export : raw materials, hemispheric expertise, and the making of Latin American art, 1933-1945
… that art in Latin America was a "cultural import" from Europe, engaged with a U.S. market that treated their art as a source of "exportable prestige." This dissertation analyzes the entanglement of this cultural discourse of import/export with the mechanisms of commerce as a new paradigm …
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The Impact of Trade and Investment Policies on the Labour Standards in the Mauritian and Namibian Export Processing Zones: Lessons for Rwanda
… EPZs as a signal of a country's departure from import substitution towards an export-oriented economy.
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The changing dynamics of the South African clothing value chain and the role for industrial policy : a case study of the China quotas
… in global clothing markets and from which, as an import - substitution economy with high levels of protection, it had previously been shielded, were brought heavily to bear on the South African clothing industry. By all accounts, it did not adjust well to the new globalised environment. The once …
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Political economy of port institutional and pricing reform in South Africa
… models of development which were built around Import Substitution Industrialisation (lSI). These countries were experiencing economic problems which are common to the application of lSI policy particularly, high cost domestic production and overvalued exchange rates (Rodriguez, 2003). In this …
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Trade in healthcare services by a developing country: the case of Botswana
… African hospital groups. Botswana remains a net importer of health services, especially through consumption abroad from the neighbouring South Africa. Nonetheless, import substitution is gradually taking root through the growing private sector that provides services that were previously imported. …
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Stuck in neutral: A case study of the challenges facing the Kenyan automotive sector
… established four decades ago with the support of import substitution industrialisation (ISI) policies. However, following liberalisation of the economy in the last decade of the 20th century, domestic industries were suddenly exposed to competition from imported products. On one hand this blunted …
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Science And Social Policy: Underpinning of Soviet Industrial Paradigms
… including industrialisation, WWII and the import substitution programme. The investments in the development of fundamental science eventually paid off both nationally and later - at the global level. Many of the Soviet scientific discoveries started to appear as products in global …
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Business strategy and the environment in a traditional manufacturing sector
… This is due principally to fears of import substitution from countries with lower environmental standards. Finally, replies indicate that generally there is a low level of awareness of the current legislative framework, suggesting a need to shift from a regulatory approach to a more …
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Exporting Barriers and the Internationalisation of Manufacturing Activities of SMEs in Jordan
… Jordan. Export marketing activities are of vital importance to the survival and growth of Jordanian companies. This is ascribed to the relatively small local market size and to the country's gradual shift from heavy reliance on import substitution strategies in the last two decades to contemporary …
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The motor industry development programme and local content: has the MIDP's objective of increasing the local sourcing of components been achieved?
… into a globally competitive industry. The import substitution policies, before the MIDP, which were characterised by high tariffs and local content requirements were ·replaced by an import-export complementation scheme, which encourages competitiveness by the introduction of foreign …
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Free trade and economic growth of Egypt
Free trade relations have become an important issue in both trade and development literature since the 1950s. From this period, 1950-1959, until the end of the 1960s, the economy of Egypt was protected as a result of the adoption of import substitution policies and excessive government intervention …
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