[ Politiques industrielles dans les pays développés et émergents: cas de la Tunisie ]
Volume 3, Issue 1, May 2013, Pages 81–91
Mallek Wafa1
1 Unité de Recherche en Economie du Développement, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax, Université de Sfax, Tunisia
Original language: French
Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Industrial policy is a microeconomic form of state intervention in industry. It monitors the performance of the secondary sector with stimulating the competitiveness of firms, overcoming market failures and adjusting its structure to economic, organizational and technological changing. Although this state intervention creates much debate, it regains interest in university research, in political discourse and economic practices. In this work, the experiences of France, Japan and the four dragons were analyzed in terms of objectives, instruments and conditions for success. The purpose behind is to learn from their actions and to try to form recommendations for others country. We also presented the state measures implemented in favor of Tunisian industry emphasizing their evolution over time, their effectiveness in achieving the goals and their impact on the evolution of the industry. We have shown that these measures are ineffective since they did not realize most of the time the objectives associated with it such as improving the competitiveness of industrial firms, increase technological content in production cycle and decreasing regional imbalance. We tried so to understand the causes behind the inefficacity of the Tunisian effort for its industry. Finally we conclude that these state efforts cannot build a genuine industrial policy.
Author Keywords: Industrial policy, R&D, Upgrading program, Fund of promotion and decentralization of industry, Tunisia.
Volume 3, Issue 1, May 2013, Pages 81–91
Mallek Wafa1
1 Unité de Recherche en Economie du Développement, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax, Université de Sfax, Tunisia
Original language: French
Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Industrial policy is a microeconomic form of state intervention in industry. It monitors the performance of the secondary sector with stimulating the competitiveness of firms, overcoming market failures and adjusting its structure to economic, organizational and technological changing. Although this state intervention creates much debate, it regains interest in university research, in political discourse and economic practices. In this work, the experiences of France, Japan and the four dragons were analyzed in terms of objectives, instruments and conditions for success. The purpose behind is to learn from their actions and to try to form recommendations for others country. We also presented the state measures implemented in favor of Tunisian industry emphasizing their evolution over time, their effectiveness in achieving the goals and their impact on the evolution of the industry. We have shown that these measures are ineffective since they did not realize most of the time the objectives associated with it such as improving the competitiveness of industrial firms, increase technological content in production cycle and decreasing regional imbalance. We tried so to understand the causes behind the inefficacity of the Tunisian effort for its industry. Finally we conclude that these state efforts cannot build a genuine industrial policy.
Author Keywords: Industrial policy, R&D, Upgrading program, Fund of promotion and decentralization of industry, Tunisia.
Abstract: (french)
La politique industrielle est une forme d'intervention microéconomique de l'Etat dans l'industrie. Elle veille sur la performance de ce secteur en stimulant la compétitivité des firmes industrielles, en palliant les échecs du marché et en réajustant ses structures aux mutations économiques, organisationnelles et technologiques. Bien que cette intervention étatique crée beaucoup de débats, elle regagne l'intérêt dans les travaux de recherches universitaires, dans les discours politiques et dans les pratiques économiques. Dans ce travail, les expériences de la France, du Japon et des quatre dragons ont été analysées en termes d'objectifs, d'instruments et des conditions de réussites. Nous avons aussi présenté les mesures étatiques mises en place en faveur de l'industrie tunisienne, en insistant sur leur évolution au fil du temps, leur efficacité dans la réalisation des objectifs et leur impact sur l'évolution de l'industrie. Nous avons pu démontrer que ces mesures sont peu efficaces et ne réalisent pas dans la plupart du temps les objectifs qui lui sont associés, ce qui nous a permis de conclure que ces efforts étatiques ne peuvent pas construire une véritable politique industrielle.
Author Keywords: Politique industrielle, R&D, Programme de mise à niveau, Fond de promotion et de décentralisation de l'industrie, Tunisie.
How to Cite this Article
Mallek Wafa, “Industrial policies in developed and emerging countries: the case of Tunisia,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 81–91, May 2013.
