Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Mining Industry, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrade
Publication Type:


ISSN 1609-9192

DOI 10.30686/1609-9192-2022-3-61-68

The aim of this article is to analyze the role of industrial policy in promoting technological modernization and economic upgrading in two mining countries, i.e. Brazil and South Africa. It analyzes the mining complex of these countries, in which they have achieved certain advantages in international markets. The main results show the significant difficulties that industrial policy faces in creating mechanisms to overcome economic and technological lags. Transition towards a higher added value and more sophisticated and diversified economic activity forms the basis of a sustainable and healthy economy, allowing companies and industries to fully implement their potential, involves investment in a wide range of production facilities and institutional structures.


Keywords: South Africa | Brazil | mining industry | industrial policy | economic upgrade |

Russian Science Citation Index



OTHER PUBLICATIONS ON THIS TOPIC

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Mining Industry in Chile

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Global Value Chains, Industry 4.0 and Industrial Policy

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Global Mining Industry in 2018 and its Perspectives

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Промышленная политика как гарант стабильности экономики [Текст] / В.Б. Кондратьев // Региональная Россия. – 2015. – № 3. – С. 30 – 39.

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Коронавирус и горная промышленность // Горная промышленность. 2020. № 5. С. 10-18. DOI 10.30686/1609-9192-2020-3-98-104.

Sidorova Elena, Gabarta A.
Industrial Policy in the European Union (co-author – Andrzej A. Habarta). Chapter in the Monograph, pp. 280-303 // Industrial Policy / A.S. Bulatov (ed). – Moscow, KnoRus, 2020. 496 p.

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Global Mining Equipment Industry


The role of mining industry in economy

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Горная промышленность Австралии: состояние и перспективы // Горная промышленность. 2022. № 1. С. 91-102. DOI 10.30686/1609-9192-2022-1-91-102.

Krasil’shchikov Victor
Deindustrialisation in Brazil: implications for Russia

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Peru as new actor in global mining equipment value chain

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Global cement market / Kondratiev V.B.

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Mining Industry in India. Russian Mining Industry. 2023;(2):95–104. https://doi.org/10.30686/1609-9192-2023-2-95-10

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
The role of critical raw materials in conditions of economic uncertainty: the EU experience

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Commodity goods forecast

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Горная промышленность, инновации и экономический рост: опыт развивающихся стран // Горная промышленность. 2020. № 3. С. 98-104. DOI 10.30686/1609-9192-2020-3-98-104.

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
China in Global Mining Industry. Russian Mining Industry. 2023;(3):78–87. https://doi.org/10.30686/1609-9192-2023-3-78-87

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Mining Industry: Out of the COVID-crisis Perspectives. Gornaya promyshlennost = Russian Mining Industry. 2021;(3):79–86. (In Russ.) DOI 10.30686/1609-9192-2021-3-79-86.

Kondrat’ev Vladimir
Role of the State in Mining Industry

Tchernoutsan Elena
French industrial policy: Digital challenges
Related publications


Comments (0)

No comments

Add comment







First news
Institute News
13/01/2025

On January 13, 2024, “Interfax” news agency published an article about the next IMEMO annual forecast “Russia and the World” for the current year 2025. The main conclusion the scientists come to is that the “factor-2025” will be the increasing uncertainty of the near future in almost all areas of world politics and economy since the beginning of the year.

more...

10/01/2025

The website of the journal “Russia in Global Affairs” (No. 1, 2025) published articles by IMEMO employees: Maria Pavlova – “From Just a Victim – to the Main Victim”; Dmitry Stefanovich – “The Multiple Dimensions of Technological Confrontation”; Konstantin Bogdanov – “Don't Greet across the Threshold”.

more...

Recently Published