This study analyzes the sources of changes in industrial leadership and catch-up by
latecomers in the world steel industry since World War II. The shift of leadership from the …

'Environmental leapfrogging'assumes that developing countries might be able to skip some
of the dirty stages of development experienced by industrialised countries. Environmental …

This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that
dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the …

Abstract S hin D.-H. and H assink R. Cluster life cycles: the case of the shipbuilding industry
cluster in South Korea, Regional Studies. Although South Korean academics and policy …

How should the performance of a manufacturing company be assessed, relative to firms
making similar products, at home and abroad? This paper shows how company-level …

'Environmental leapfrogging', ie the skipping of pollution intensive stages of development,
has attracted increasing attention in recent energy and climate debates. It has been …

Many developing countries still face difficulties initiating and sustaining economic
development. Such difficulties have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting …

To reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, global emissions should be reduced to net zero
by mid-century. The steel sector is an emission-intensive industrial subsector where low …

At its twentieth anniversary conference, held in York in September 1994, the overall theme
was' Paradigms Lost? Paradigms Regained: Southern African Studies in the 1990s'. One of …

This paper assesses the sensitivity of climate change mitigation costs to energy efficiency
policies, and gives policy insights for the timing of climate action. A hybrid general …