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Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in AfricaThis book is not yet published, expected in January 2020. When published this book will be available open access...
Mining Industrial policy Extractive industriesWorking Paper
De-industrialization, re-industrialization, and the resurgence of state capitalism: The case of IndonesiaDiscussions on the developing world’s industrial policies have largely neglected the role of state-owned entities...
Industrialization Industrial policy infrastructureWorking Paper
South African gold mining and local procurement in Tanzania and GhanaWe examine the extent to which two of Africa’s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement policies to enhance backward linkages from the minerals sector...
Mining Extractives goldWorking Paper
The governance of global value chains, the state, and small businesses: The case of timber in MyanmarWe use the case of the timber industry in Myanmar to analyse how national regulatory frameworks and international ecological discourses affect forest management and small businesses...
Timber Wood ForestryBook Chapter
Institutions and DevelopmentFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Institutions Organizations Political settlementsLecture
MOOC: Industrial policy for the 21st century – the challenge for Africa
Book Chapter
Southeast AsiaFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Agricultural productivity Investments ForeignBook Chapter
Industrialization and DevelopmentFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Industrial policy Industrialization Structural transformationPolicy Brief
Learning from a half-century of economic development in AsiaWhen Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations , in 1968, he was deeply pessimistic about the development prospects in Asia...
Development Economics Asia Industrial policyWorking Paper
Moving up the copper value chain in Southern AfricaSouthern African countries—mainly Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—account for around a seventh of global production of copper...
copper Industrialization AgglomerationBlog
Rethinking African industrialization on another Africa Industrialization Day
This week I attended the 28 th Africa Industrialization Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Even sympathetic readers may reasonably ask, why hold another African Industrialization Day at all?...
Industrialization structural change Industrial policyWorking Paper
From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy: Explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about itSuccess in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of global employment in manufacturing will decline, manufacturing won’t play the same role in the coming decades...
Stockholm Statement Industrial policy Dynamic comparative advantageBlog
‘Industrial’ policy in the 21st century During the past week, I participated in two international conferences. The first was the WIDER Development Conference in Helsinki: Think development - Think WIDER ...
Industrialization structural change Employment and IndustryWorking Paper
Institutions and Asia’s development: The role of norms and organizational powerThe role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal’s Asian Drama, with later contributions from institutional economics and developmental state theory...
Institutions Organizations Political settlementsBook Chapter
Downstream activities: The possibilities and the realitiesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
extractives industry Downstream processing Vertical integrationBook Chapter
Local content, supply chains, and shared infrastructureFrom the book: Extractive Industries
extractives industry Local content Industrial policy