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Industrial Policy: Its Relevance and Currency

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  • Biswajit Dhar

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This paper makes an attempt to reflect on the debate on industrial policy, which has seen a revival of sorts in recent years, by analysing the developments in the two most important faces of market-oriented development paradigm viz., the United States and the European Union.

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  • Biswajit Dhar, 2015. "Industrial Policy: Its Relevance and Currency," Working Papers id:6638, eSocialSciences.
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