Ferrannini Andrea, Barbieri Elisa, Biggeri Mario, Di Tommaso Marco R
Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara, Italy.
ARCO (Action Research for CO-development), PIN Scrl, University of Florence, Italy.
World Dev. 2021 Jan;137:105215. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105215. Epub 2020 Sep 24.
National and local societies all around the world are fighting the most dramatic global public health emergency of our time, which has soon become an economic, social and human crisis touching all key dimensions of our lives. Within an inevitable revamping attention on the need for government intervention to face the challenges raised by the Covid19 pandemic, industrial policy is appearing as a central piece of the puzzle. As production dynamics in every country is highly affected by the crisis, industrial policy is considered part of the response to solve dramatic economic and social problems deriving by extraordinary levels of unemployment, deprivation and poverty. In this paper, we argue that a turning point on the connection between industrial policy, sustainability and development has been reached, highlighting the need to rethink its theoretical foundations as well as its governance and implementation processes for a new role in our post-Covid 19 societies. Therefore, the research question underlying this paper deals primarily with the nexus between the debate on industrial policy and its effects in terms of human development, social cohesion and sustainability. For this reason, we attempt at closing the gap between different strands of literature, whose integrated connection leads to a new analytical framework with real-world implications on the role of industrial policy, not only as tool for productive dynamics, but also as a leverage for sustainable human development. All in all, we aim at contributing to the debate on our post-Covid19 economies and societies in two ways: firstly, by providing a new integrated analytical framework on industrial policy to steer a sustainable structural change of our economies and societies towards sustainable human development; secondly, by identifying preliminary implications on industrial policy governance and implementation, investing in the accurate and transparent design of industrial policy in the post-Covid19 era.
世界各地的国家和地方协会都在应对我们这个时代最严峻的全球公共卫生紧急事件，这一事件很快演变成一场触及我们生活所有关键层面的经济、社会和人类危机。在不可避免地重新关注政府干预以应对新冠疫情带来的挑战之际，产业政策正成为这一难题的核心部分。由于每个国家的生产动态都受到危机的严重影响，产业政策被视为应对因极高失业率、贫困和匮乏所引发的严峻经济和社会问题的一部分。在本文中，我们认为在产业政策、可持续性与发展之间的联系上已达到一个转折点，强调需要重新思考其理论基础以及治理和实施过程，以便在我们的后新冠社会中发挥新作用。因此，本文所基于的研究问题主要涉及产业政策辩论与其在人类发展、社会凝聚力和可持续性方面的影响之间的关系。出于这个原因，我们试图弥合不同文献流派之间的差距，这些流派的综合联系形成了一个新的分析框架，对产业政策的作用具有现实世界的影响，产业政策不仅是生产动态的工具，也是可持续人类发展的杠杆。总而言之，我们旨在通过两种方式为关于我们后新冠经济和社会的辩论做出贡献：第一，提供一个关于产业政策的新的综合分析框架，以引导我们的经济和社会朝着可持续人类发展进行可持续的结构变革；第二，通过确定对产业政策治理和实施的初步影响，在后新冠时代对产业政策进行准确和透明的设计。
