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Africa-China: A path to mutual prosperity?
25 February 2011
How sub-Saharan African countries can seize the new opportunities to advance their own development through trade with China
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 1990s, Africa, agriculture, Cape Verde, chemicals, China, Chinese Ministry of Commerce, climate, commodity price shock, comparative advantage, competition, development, economic recovery, éducation, emerging economies, engine of development, environment, EU, Europe, European Union, export, FDI, financial crisis, food, foreign direct investment, GDP, Ghana, Global Competitiveness Index, global economy, government, growth rate, high-income countries, human, import, Industrial Development Organization, investment, issue 5, Jiying Plastic Products, Kenya, labour-intensive, lower-middle income countries, machinery, Making It, Mali, man-made products, manufactured goods, market, metals, natural, north-south trade, ore, petroleum, policy, raw material, resources, Rwanda, south-south trade, statistics, sub-Saharan, technology, trade, trade growth, transport equipment, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, vuvuzela, world, World Bank, world cup 2010, World Economic Forum, Xiao Ye, Zhejiang province

Entrepreneurship and industrialization: tread carefully!
11 November 2010
Wim Naudé warns that entrepreneurship policies can be fraught with potential pitfalls
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Brazil, business, China, commodity prices, developing countries, development, Doing Business report, economic growth, employment, entrepreneurship, FDI, financial crisis, government, income, India, infrastructure, institutions, investment, issue 4, labour, lobbying, market, micro and small enterprises, MSE, Nathan Leff, policy, poverty, productivity, state-owned, tax rates, technology, the Economist, United Nations University, UNU-WIDER, USA, William Lazonick, Wim Naudé, World Bank, World Institute for Development Economics Research

Towards a more productive debate
5 August 2010
With the discrediting of orthodox policies, and the exposure of the double standards of the rich countries, industrial policy is no longer taboo. Ha-Joon Chang explains.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Asian Development Bank, Economic Development, European Investment Bank, export, financial crisis, global environment, import substitution industrialization, industrial policy, Issue 3, LDCs, Oxfam, political economy, privatization, trade, trade liberalization, University of Cambridge, Washington Consensus, World Bank, World Trade Organization, WTO
Interview: The unfinished global revolution
29 August 2011
Exploring the challenges and opportunities of globalization and the pursuit of a new international politics in the 21st century with Mark Malloch Brown
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, article, Asia, book, Brazil, China, climate change, democratic activist, development, economic, economy, éducation, eradicating poverty, feature, financial crisis, global affairs, global democracy, global governance, global warming, globalisation, globalization, growth, HIV/AIDS, India, Industrial Development Organization, International, international jobs, international travel, issue 7, jobs, Kofi Annan, latin america, Making It, Mark Malloch Brown, news, Obama, people power, philanthropy, poverty, poverty in africa, Rahim Kanani, UNDP, Unfinished Global Revolution: The Pursuit of a New International Politics, United Nations, United States, ways to stop global warming, what is a democracy, what is democracy, World Affairs Commentary, World Bank, world poverty