Cutting Edge Issues in Development: Industrial Policy, Trade and Development in the New Global Economic Order
On Friday 12 October, development economist Ha-Joon Chang came to talk at the LSE as part of the International Development Department’s Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking and Practice lecture series. Kyeonga Kang from the MSc African Development was there and covered the talk for us.
“The recent changes in global industrial policy environment have not made industrial policy impossible.” Chang […]
Cutting Edge Issues in Development: Achieving Prosperity for Africa
Cutting Edge Issues in Development: Achieving Prosperity for Africa
On Friday 3 March, Henrietta Moore, Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London, delivered a talk on achieving prosperity for Africa. Francesco Giacomini reflects on the lecture.
It is the end of growth as we know it
Our story starts in Senegal. In 2014, President Macky Sall, declared that Africa is the land of opportunity for investments. He was right. […]