APORDE 2023 PROGRAMME (DRAFT)

  
Date Topic Lecturer  
Sunday 3 Sept Participants arrive    
Monday 4 Sept 07H45: Registration Rozale Sewduth  
08H00-08H20: Welcome to APORDE and IPPM (joint session) Christopher Cramer; Adeyemi Dipeolu; Saul Levin; Niki Cattaneo; Zukiswa Kimani  
08H20: Introduction to the APORDE Programme Saul Levin & Niki Cattaneo (Course Directors)  
09H15: Critical Perspectives on Development Economics Christopher Cramer  
10H15-10H45: Morning tea break    
12H30: End of morning session (including discussion)    
12H30-14H00: Lunch break    
14H00-15H00: Group discussion and activity Course Directors  
15H30-16H00: Afternoon tea break    
16H00: End of afternoon session    
18H00: Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture: Industrial Hubs and Late Development Arkebe Oqubay Chair: Fiona Tregenna
       
Tuesday 5 Sept 08H45: Structural Change and Deindustrialisation Fiona Tregenna  
10H15-10H45: Morning tea break    
12H00: End of morning session (including discussion and group activity)    
12H00-14H00: Lunch break 12H00: APORDE SC meeting  
14H00: African economic development: a practitioner’s view Adeyemi Dipeolu Other lecture is on IPPM
15H00-15H15: Afternoon tea break    
16H45: End of afternoon session (including discussion)    
       
Wednesday 6 Sept 08H45: Agriculture, the Industrialisation of Freshness and Industrial Policy Christopher Cramer & Shingie Chisoro-Dube Joint with IPPM
10H15-10H45: Morning tea break    
12H00: End of morning session (including discussion)    
12H00-14H30: Lunch break    
14H30: Trade and gender Judith Fessehaie (online) Note later starting time
15H30-15H45: Afternoon tea break    
16H45: End of afternoon session (including discussion)    
       
Thursday 7 Sept 10H00: Reconstructing the development discourse: bringing production back in Ha-Joon Chang (online) Note later start: 10H00 SA time / 09H00 UK time
11H00-11H10: Morning tea break (TBC)    
12H00: End of morning session (including discussion)   Session ends at 12H00 SA time / 11H00 UK time
12H00-13H30: Lunch break    
13H30: Linking to Industrialise: Global Value Chains, Local Production Systems and Industrial Policy Antonio Andreoni Other lecture is on IPPM
15H00-15H15: Afternoon tea break    
16H30: End of afternoon session (including discussion)    
18H30: Generalisations about (De)Industrialization in Africa John Sender and Lumkile Mondi; Chair Pamela Mondliwa John Sender 30mins; Discussant Lumkile Mondi 15-20mins; Q & A time 30mins
       
Friday 8 Sept 08H45: Labour Markets and Rural Poverty: Misleading Measures and Harmful Policies John Sender  
10H15-10H45: Morning tea break    
12H00: End of morning session (including discussion)    
12H00-13H30: Lunch break    
13H30: Group discussion/activity, including an introduction to the group exercise for 2023 Course Directors  
15H00-15H15: Afternoon tea break    
16H30: End of afternoon session    
       
Saturday 9 Sept 08H45-09H45: Groupwork preparation Meet in groups  
10H00-16H00: Optional visit to mall    
18H00: Optional – movie on the global financial crisis (When bubbles burst)    
       
Sunday 10 Sept Optional tour activity to be advised (Cradle of Humankind)    
       
Monday 11 Sept 08H45: Inequality: its Measurement and Consequences Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji  
10H15-10H45: Morning tea break    
12H00: End of morning session (including discussion)    
12H00-13H30: Lunch break    
13H30: Latin American Development Experience Jonathan di John  
15H00-15H15: Afternoon tea break    
16H30: End of afternoon session (including discussion)    
       
Tuesday 12 Sept 08H45: Governance, Democracy and Economic Development Mushtaq Khan  
10H15-10H45: Morning tea break    
12H00: End of morning session (including discussion)    
12H00-13H30: Lunch break    
13H30: Taxation, State-Building and Economic Development Jonathan di John  
15H00-15H15: Afternoon tea break    
16H30: End of afternoon session (including discussion)    
18H00: The Im(possibility) of African Development – Decolonising Development Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji; Discussant TBC Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji 20-30mins; Discussant 15 mins; Q & A time 30mins
       
Wed 13 Sept 08H45: Making anti-corruption real Mushtaq Khan  
10H15-10H45: Morning tea break    
12H00: End of morning session (including discussion)    
12H15: Field trip to factory; packed lunch on the bus    
17H00: Return to hotel    
       
Thursday 14 Sept 08H45: Understanding and addressing poverty and inequality in the context of structural transformation Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji  
10H15-10H45: Morning tea break    
12H00: End of morning session (including discussion)    
12H00-13H30: Lunch break    
13H30: Strategic trade and industrial policy, regional integration and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Niki Cattaneo & Faizel Ismail  
15H00-15H15: Afternoon tea break    
16H30: End of afternoon session (including discussion)    
       
Friday 15 Sept 09H00: Groupwork: Trade negotiation simulation exercise Faizel Ismail & Niki Cattaneo  
11H00-11H15: Tea break    
11H15: Groupwork: Trade negotiation simulation exercise    
13H00-13H30: Lunch break    
13H30: Groupwork: Trade negotiation simulation exercise    
15H45: Closing Course directors  
18H30: Farewell Dinner and Presentation of Certificates    
       
Saturday 16 Sept Leisure Day and Lecturers/Participants Depart