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Regional Industrial Policy in the Western Balkans: Neither Specialization nor Spatialization?

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    • Publication Information:
      Routledge
    • Publication Date:
      2024
    • Collection:
      ETH Zürich Research Collection
    • Abstract:
      This paper analyzes post-socialist industrial development and policy in the Western Balkans through the lens of its regional specialization and spatial concentration. Against a conceptual framework revolving around place-based industrial policy, and using the Concentration index (modified Herfindahl-Hirschman index) and location coefficients (Balassa index), a comparative analysis over three decades (1990-2020) highlights weak regional diversification and intra-regional integration of industrial activity. The findings offer a new industrial policy that transcends regional specialization and spatial concentration to address regional development, planning and governance. The concluding remarks reveal some basic paths toward effective and pro-European regional industrial policy in the Western Balkans. ; ISSN:0012-8775 ; ISSN:1557-9298
    • File Description:
      application/application/pdf
    • Relation:
      info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000939839800001; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/603768
    • Accession Number:
      10.3929/ethz-b-000603768
    • Online Access:
      https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/603768
      https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000603768
    • Rights:
      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
    • Accession Number:
      edsbas.209A2B2