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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1996. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 266-290). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1996. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 266-290).

Throughout the history of capitalism, the process of industrialisation has been recognised as the engine of economic development. No region in the world ‘suffers’ more acutely from a lack of industrialisation than Africa, clearly highlighting the need for industrial policy. However, the formulation of such policies is not straightforward in the current era of globalised production. In recent years, a debate has taken hold over whether the geographical expansion and increased fragmentation of production networks—often referred to as the expansion of global value chains (GVCs)—calls for new approaches to industrial policy in developing countries. By drawing on the case of Ethiopia, this dissertation demonstrates that industrial policy in developing countries needs no new ‘magic bullet’ in the era of expanding GVCs. The dissertation applies a funnelling technique, meaning that each chapter builds on information presented and arguments made in the preceding chapters. Chapter 2 contextualises the importance of manufacturing and industrial policy for economic development in Africa. The chapter argues that the manufacturing sector continues to play an integral role in the process of economic development, and discusses the role of the state in the process of industrialisation, arguing that there are strong justifications for intervention through industrial policy. Chapter 3 looks at how the expansion of GVCs affects the productive structures of developing countries, particularly those in Africa, and asks if industrial policy has to change in this new global production environment. I argue that the fundamental problems of participating in GVCs are the same as when countries like South Korea and Taiwan industrialised between 1960 and 1990, although on a different scale. Chapter 4 analyses Ethiopia’s industrialisation trajectory and GVC-oriented industrial policies in the textile and leather industries. This analysis is based on 6 months of fieldwork in Ethiopia, where I carried out several interviews with stakeholders in the private and public sector and collected and collated datasets on industrial performance in collaboration with government agencies. While the findings of this chapter make an original empirical contribution to explaining the specific case of Ethiopia, the insights provided by the analysis offer broader conceptual conclusions as well.

L’objet de cette thèse est d’étudier la stratégie d’industrialisation du Vietnam, d’en déterminer les points communs et les spécificités, et d’en déduire des propositions normatives. Le premier chapitre met les stratégies d’industrialisation des pays asiatiques dans la perspective générale des modèles de rattrapage technologique, en insistant en particulier sur les cas du Japon et de la Corée,qui ont combiné une forte ouverture internationale, et un interventionnisme étatique important. Le deuxième chapitre présente la situation actuelle et l’évolution récente de l’économie vietnamienne. Il discute de son insertion dans le schéma de division du travail qui s’institue en Asie de l’Est, à partir du changement de la structure de son commerce extérieur. Les faiblesses de la politique industrielle vietnamienne et sa position défavorable dans le processus de rattrapage y sont aussi discutées. Le troisième chapitre porte sur les facteurs de compétitivité de l’économie vietnamienne, à partir d’un examen des indicateurs traditionnels de mesure de la compétitivité, et d’une enquête menée auprès d’entreprises vietnamiennes. Le quatrième chapitre évalue l’impact des Investissement directs étrangers (IDE) sur l’économie vietnamienne, en utilisant les statistiques disponibles et les résultats d’une enquête menée sur des entreprises ayant accueilli des IDE. Enfin le dernier chapitre discute de la possibilité de mise en œuvre d’une stratégie alternative de rattrapage, qui reposerait sur une participation à un modèle de production intégré, et non modulaire, et qui aboutirait à un meilleur partage des compétences et tâches avec un ou des pays à niveau technologique plus élevé. / The theme of this thesis is to study the strategy of industrialization of Vietnam, to determine its common points and specificities and to deduct normative propositions. The first chapter puts the strategies of industrialization of the Asian countries in the general prospect of technological catching up, by insisting on the cases of Japan and Korea in particular, which realize a mix of a international openness and an important state interventionism. The second chapter presents the current situation and the recent evolution of the Vietnamese economy. It discusses Vietnam’s insertion in the network ofEast Asian division of labour by studying the change in its foreign trade structure. The weaknesses of the Vietnamese industrial policy and its unfavourable position in the process of catching up are also controversial. The third chapter studies the factors of competitiveness of the Vietnamese economy from an examination of the traditional indicators of measure of the competitiveness and a survey about Vietnamese companies. The fourth chapter estimates the impact of the foreign direct investment (FDI)on the Vietnamese economy by using the available statistics and the results of a survey on companies having welcomed the FDI. Finally the last chapter discusses the possibility of implementation of analternative strategy of catching up, which would base on a participation in an integrated model of production, not modular and would end in a better division of the skills and the tasks with one orseveral countries at higher technological level.