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10 Things Learnt about the Implementation of Industrial Policy (Rob Davies)
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Media
Press release: Industrial policy in practice: Central to driving structural transformation in Africa (16 March 2022)
Press release: Trade and industrial policy experts give their voice to the launch of the APORDE Alumni Network (11 March 2022)
LAUNCH PROGRAMME
LAUNCH OF THE APORDE ALUMNI NETWORK
15 March 2022
Chairperson:
Niki Cattaneo – Aporde co-Course Director and Senior Lecturer in Economics, Rhodes University
Opening remarks:
Christopher Cramer – Professor of the Political Economy of Development at SOAS, University of London and Chair of the Aporde Scientific Committee
Panel Discussion Topic:
Implementing Industrial Policy – bringing together theory and practice:
Speakers:
Arkebe Oqubay
– Senior Minister, Ethiopia; Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London, and University of Johannesburg; Distinguished Fellow at the London-based Overseas Development Institute; and UNU-WIDER Honorary Research Fellow
Rob Davies
– Former Minister of Trade and Industry; Member of the Trade and Industrial Advisory Council of the African Continental Free Trade Area
Adeyemi Dipeolu
– Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters in Nigeria and chairs of the Fiscal Policy Reforms Committee, as well as co-chair of the committee that developed the new National Development Plan
Launching the APORDE Alumni network:
Saul Levin – TIPS Executive director and Aporde co-Course Director
Opening of the call for Applications for APORDE 2022:
Zukiswa Kimani – Chief Director in the Industrial Competitiveness and Growth Branch of the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (Unable to speak due to technical reasons)
Thandika Mkandawire Prize – call for Abstracts:
Fiona Tregenna – Head of the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair in Industrial Development; Professor of Economics at the University of Johannesburg
Open discussion:
APORDE Alumni