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Back to Search189. South Korea's controversial industrial policy
How South Korea's Heavy and Chemical Industry Drive policy of 1973-79 worked and may have contributed to its economic rise.
2 years, 8 months ago
188. Did responsible sourcing by multinationals help workers in poor countries?
What happened to workers and others in Costa Rica when global companies imposed new responsible sourcing codes of conduct on their suppliers.
2 years, 8 months ago
187. Industrial policy and the rise of Romania's Silicon Valley
How a 2001 income tax break for Romanian software programmers helped transform the country's information technology sector.
2 years, 8 months ago
186. How US lead regulations hurt Mexican babies
Higher US lead standards in 2009 resulted in more production and pollution from Mexican plants. Nearby infants and kids suffered.
2 years, 9 months ago
185. The historic collapse of Switzerland's watch industry
New quartz technology and competition from Japan devastated the dominant Swiss watch industry of the 1970s. What happened next?
2 years, 9 months ago
184. The US-EU fights over electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act
EVs headlined the transatlantic dispute over the Inflation Reduction Act. That feud may be over, but other conflicts remain.
2 years, 10 months ago
183. How the United States cleaned up container ship pollution
In 2012, the EPA started regulating maritime emissions of air pollutants. The shipping industry's response offers lessons for other countries.
2 years, 11 months ago
182. Is China's industrial policy working?
The "Made in China 2025" subsidies both provoked a trade war and inspired similar moves by the US and other economies. But have they worked?
2 years, 11 months ago
181. US-China trade war fallout: This is what decoupling looks like
How do we reconcile "record-level" US-China imports and exports when tariffs remain on more than half of trade between the two economies?
3 years ago
180. The WTO is in trouble. Econ 101 to the rescue?
How understanding the WTO's past can help foster its revival – including for policy challenges like climate and China's non-market economy.
3 years ago