Overview and Insights/ John Page and Finn Tarp -- Part I: Coordination and industrial policy; Industrial policy, learning, and development/ Joseph E. Stiglitz; Coordination through an Asian lens/ Justin Yifu Lin and Khuong Minh Vu; State-Business relations as drivers of economic performance/ Alberto Lemma and Dirk Willem te Velde; State capability and prospects for close coordination: considerations for industrial policy in Africa/ Rachel M. Gisselquist -- : PART II: Coordination mechanics in Asia; Korea's Evolving Business-Government Relationship/ Eun Mee Kim ; The Industrial Policy Experience of the Electronics Industry in Malaysia/ Rajah Rasiah; Case Studies of Decentralized Coordination in China/ Hinh T. Dinh; The Political Economy of Industrial Development in Viet Nam: Impact of State-Business Relationship on Industrial Performance, 1986-2013/ Tu-Anh Vu-Thanh-- Part III: Building coordination in Africa; A Natural Experiment of Industrial Policy: Floriculture and the Metal and Engineering Industries in Ethiopia/ Mulu Gebreeyesus; Policy Coordination and Growth Traps in a Middle-Income Country Setting: The Case of South Africa/ Haroon Bhorat, Aalia Cassim, and Alan Hirsch; Special Economic Zones in Africa: Political Economy Challenges and Solutions/ Thomas Farole and Lotta Moberg; Ghana's Experiments with Business-Government Coordination/ Ernest Aryeetey and Nkechi S. Owoo; Importing coordination: Africa's Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils/ John Page

xxv, 304 p. : chart, graphs, tables

"A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)".

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