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Industrial Development Report Series
UNIDO Flagship Publication
For information on IDR 2005 contact Francisco Sercovich, email: F.Sercovich@unido.org
IDR 2005, entitled Capability building for catching-up: Historical, empirical and policy dimensions, devotes a special section to assess lessons learned from catching-up experiences throughout modern history. From these experiences it draws a framework for operational policy analysis as well as a methodology for the assessment of capability building needs, thus filling a gap in the current understanding of economic development. The Report also includes a section monitoring and assessing global industrial trends, following the tradition of previous reports..
The launching of the Industrial Development Report 2005 took place on Wednesday, 23 November 2005. Webcasts of the various speakers at the event are available here.
The President of Industrial Development Board, Ambassador T. Stelzer, chaired the event, which featured statements by the Director-General, Dr. Carlos Magariños and Director-General Designate, Dr. Kandeh Yumkella. Director of the Report, Dr. Francisco Sercovich gave an overview of the report and Professors Nicholas Crafts (London School of Economics) and Jan Fagerberg (University of Oslo), gave presentations respectively on: the experience of Ireland; and the historical and empirical dimensions of catching-up. DOWNLOADS
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The Industrial Development Report (IDR) series is intended to build on development policy experience and contribute to a refinement of the international development agenda. Aiming to provide highly context-specific policy guidance, the Reports in the series pay special attention to current needs and capabilities in the developing countries in general, and the least developed among them in particular.
The reports also aim to provide guidance to policy makers and assist both public and private stakeholders to formulate, implement and monitor national strategies for effective poverty reduction through sustained productivity enhancement. While doing this, the series not only takes stock of past development experiences, but also analyzes policy options in the light of country-specific conditions prevailing under the current international norms and rules.
The first report, IDR 2002 / 2003Competing through Innovation and Learning, focused on the role of learning and innovation in industrial development. The Industrial Development Scoreboard was introduced with this report as part of the effort to provide policy makers with a tool to assess the state of world industry and benchmark their national industrial performance.
IDR 2004, Industrialization, Environment and the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa, while continuing and updating industrial performance benchmarking, addressed the challenges faced by Sub-Saharan African countries in furthering their efforts towards poverty reduction. It featured a special focus on the dynamic processes of productivity growth, wealth creation and social advance in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the internationally agreed development goals and targets of the Millennium Declaration and the national poverty reduction strategies. online order form for hard copy versionBackground papers
