The role of government in accelerating industrial development in developing countries

Abstract EN

This paper attempts to throw some light on the role of the government in promoting industrialization in developing countries in general.

It deals with: i) the conditions under which governments are likely to make their hest contribution to industrialization in a market-oriented economy and to give particular emphasis to the services that government provide directly; ii) to take a preliminary look at government's indirect role of intervening to influence the way markets work, iii) to draw lessons from different countries' experience, and iv) to summarize the main findings of the paper.