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Science and Survival: Is an Agriculture-led Developmental Model the Way Forward for sub-Saharan Africa?
9 May 2013 Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen and Roger Williamson Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century, (edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim...
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After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Some Lessons on Transition
Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London was the setting on 19 June 2012 for the launch of the...
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What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? (Part I)
Tony Addison The present currency turmoil is both a symptom and a cause of profound changes now underway in the global economy. In part 1 of this two...
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Africa's Failure to Industrialize: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?
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John Page
December 2014
16 December 2014 John Page On 20 November 2014 the United Nations celebrated the 25th Africa Industrialization Day. But perhaps ‘celebrate’ is not...
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Africa’s Low Hanging Fruits
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Justin Lin, Yan Wang
April 2014
23 April 2014 Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang At the onset of its miraculous rise in 1979, China had been trapped in poverty for centuries and was poorer...
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China and India’s Development Strategies: Lessons for Developing Countries
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Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Guanghua Wan
October 2010
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan China and India have become global economic powers. Even at the market exchange rate, China overtook Japan...
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Animal Spirits
Tony Addison 'Birds of a feather flock together', the old saying goes. So too do investors. Today, those investment birds are a depressed lot. The...
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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Development: Lessons from Finland
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Otto Toivanen
October 2009
Otto Toivanen At least since the 1950s it has been recognized that innovation is central to economic growth. It has also been well understood that...
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Are African Countries Paying Too Much Attention To Agriculture?
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Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery
April 2010
Luc Christiaensen and Lionel Demery Escalating food prices in 2007-2008, climate change and land grabbing have woken the world up to the extraordinary...
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Regional Industrialization and Integration in Southern Africa - Reporting from TIPS Annual Forum
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Roger Williamson
September 2015
The white-painted cluster of traditional style buildings might suggest that this was a farm on the South African veldt. Not so however—it was Trade...
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Making Information Accessible and Affordable for All
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Veli-Pekka Niitamo
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by Veli-Pekka Niitamo Great challenges must be over come if the emerging ‘mobile information society’ is to be affordable and accessible worldwide...
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What did we Learn at the L2C Conference about Industrial Development and Policy in Africa?
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Roger Williamson
August 2013
22 August 2013 Roger Williamson Given the high growth rates since 2000 and low labour costs, Africa could develop manufacturing industry, agro...
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Industrial Policy and Environmental Sustainability: The Challenge After COP15
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Wim Naudé, Ludovico Alcorta
January 2010
Wim Naudé and Ludovico Alcorta Industrial policy is being reassessed in the light of the global financial crisis as well as the negotiations on a...
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How the World Works: Jobs and Structural Transformation as Keys to Development
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Roger Williamson
August 2014
27 August 2014 Roger Williamson The themes of the new UNU-WIDER work programme—transformation, inclusion, and sustainability—were the focus of the...
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Learning to Compete: Lessons from Vietnam – An Interview with Carol Newman
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Roger Williamson
May 2014
28 May 2014 In this interview Carol Newman discusses the success of the Vietnamese economic transformation and lessons which can be drawn for Africa...
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Illegal Fishing by Small-Scale Fishers in Ghana: Findings and Policy Suggestions
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Wisdom Akpalu
May 2014
27 May 2014 Wisdom Akpalu The number of fishers and fishing vessels in the capture fishery sector, especially the artisanal marine fishery sub-sector...
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Experimentation and Co-ordination as Industrial Policy: Examples from Ethiopia and Chile
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Mulu Gebreeyesus, Michiko Iizuka
September 2010
Mulu Gebreeyesus and Michiko Iizuka Industrial policy can be defined as the policies that stimulate specific economic activities and promote...
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From the Editor’s Desk (November 2012)
Tony Addison This month saw the visit of Kaushik Basu, the World Bank’s new Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, to...