Industrial policy has traditionally been employed to enhance productivity, boost competitiveness, and promote economic growth. Today, green industrial policy follows this same approach of state-driven structural change while also promoting broader social and environmental goals.
This e-course is designed to advance learning on green industrial policy at a high technical level and serves two types of users: it provides individual learners with the knowledge and conceptual tools to grasp and shape the global debate on modernizing the industrial basis of our economies; and lecturers and instructors are encouraged to use the course materials and apply them within their instructional activities.
The course's materials are curated to help achieve the following learning objectives:
- Explain the rationale for advancing green industry
- Differentiate the main concepts related to green industrial policy
- Highlight relevant empirical evidence in support of policy reform
- Distinguish policy instruments to foster structural change
- Appraise strategic considerations during policy design, implementation and evaluation
- Outline the relationship between green industrial policy and trade