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Ruchir Agarwal on Industrial Policy

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The Role of the State in Growth Policy

Ruchir Agarwal: There is a legitimate question on what should the role of the state be when thinking about growth policy. He says it's pretty subjective whether national champions are a good or a bad thing. But he warns against just falling into the trap of following industrial policy in a without necessarily thinking about really the context and understanding the likelihood that it's hard to make it work.

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