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Appraising Selective Financial Assistance to Industry: A Review of Institutions and Methodologies in the United Kingdom, Sweden and West Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

R. M. Grant
R. M. Grant
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Centre for Business Strategy London Business School
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Abstract

The ability to forecast and evaluate the impact of selective financial assistance is crucial to the formulation of effective policies of selective industrial intervention. A survey of institutions and methodology across the three countries reveals inadequacies in the quality and the extent of governments’ appraisal of industrial assistance measures. The principal problems of quantitative appraisal are identified and discussed and suggestions are made for improvements in the procedures and methods of appraisal, with the purpose of improving the formulation and the implementation of policies of selective industrial assistance.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 1983 , pp. 369 - 395
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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