Place-based policies: How to design them and why
Effective place-based policies need to deliver desired spatial economic cohesion while minimizing resource waste and secondary distortions.
Effective place-based policies need to deliver desired spatial economic cohesion while minimizing resource waste and secondary distortions.
Advanced digital production technologies are changing manufacturing and carry implications for the future of industrial development.
Digitalization holds promise for less industrialized economies but also underlines the need for increasing efforts in developing human capital.
Advances in production technology and a trend towards shorter supply chains make a return to “business as usual” highly unlikely.
The recovery of supply chains can be supported through trade policies and firm-specific initiatives.
COVID-19 struck at the core of GVC hub regions, with severe implications for international production networks.