“New Thinking on Industrial Policy: Implications for
Africa”
July 3-4, 2012
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Venue: Jacaranda 1, Pretoria Sheraton Hotel
Tuesday, July 3rd
8:30-10:00
Session 1: New Thinking on Industrial Policy
An Overview of the Washington, D.C. Roundtable on Industrial Policy
Célestin Monga (Sr. Adviser, DEC, World Bank)
Comparative Advantage
Justin Yifu Lin (Beijing University, past Sr. Vice President and Chief Economist, Development
Economics, World Bank)
The Learning Economy: Spillovers and Learning Processes
Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University, U.S.) (paper joint with Bruce Greenwald )
Discussant: Nimrod Zalk - A South African Perspective
10:00-11:15
Session II: Broad perspectives I
Industrial Policy: Can Africa Do It?
Ha Joon Chang (University of Cambridge)
Accumulation of capabilities, structural change and macro prices: an evolutionary and
structuralist roadmap
Mario Cimoli (Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) -UN)
Discussant: Simon Roberts (Competition Commission of South Africa and Visiting Professor,
University of Johannesburg
11:15-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-12:45
Session III: Broad perspectives II
Industrial Policy and Structural Change: Strategies for Development and a Research
Agenda
K.Y. Amoako. Presented by Yaw Ansu (African Center for Economic Transformation).
Understanding Structural Change in Africa
Jean Imbs (Paris School of Economics)
Discussant: Fiona Tregenna (University of Johannesburg)
12:45-13:45
Lunch
13:45-15:00
Session IV: Can the “Development State” work for Africa?
Governance Issues
Mushtaq Khan (University of London)
Similarities and differences/adapting the Developmental State
Richard Joseph (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Kenichi Ohno (GRIPS)
15:00-16:30
Session V: The New Global Order and African Reindustrialization
Implications and Opportunities of increasing wage costs in Asia for African
reindustrialization
Célestin Monga (World Bank)
Implications of trade liberalization for African reindustrialization
Dominique Njinkeu (World Bank)
Walking (stumbling?) on two legs: Meeting SSA's industrialisation challenge"
Raphael Kaplinsky (Open University)
Discussants: Akbar Noman (Columbia), Justin Lin (World Bank)
16:45-18:15
Session VI: Creating a Good environment
Macro-economic policies and exchange rate policies
James Heintz (PERI, University of Mass. Amherst)
Competition policy
Simon Roberts (Competition Commission of South Africa and Visiting Professor, University of
Johannesburg)
Promoting Entrepreneurship "Infant Capitalists and Trade Policy"
Akbar Noman (Columbia University)
Discussants: Neva Makgeta (Economic Development Department)
19:15
Gala Dinner
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
8:30-9:45
Session VII: Industrial policy and finance
Financial market liberalization and lending
Hamid Rashid (United Nations)
Financialization as an obstacle to industrialization
C.P. Chandrasekhar (JNU University)
Discussants: Kenichi Ohno (GRIPS), Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia)
9:45-10:00
Coffee break
10:00-12:00
Session VIII: Sectoral policies
Large estates/outsourcing land
Klaus Deininger (World Bank)
Promoting manufacturing
Vandana Chandra (World Bank)
Collaborative governance
Brian Levy (World Bank)
Towards a Resource-based African Industrialisation Policy
Paul Jourdan (COEGA Development Corporation)
Discussant: David Kaplan (University of Cape Town), Seeraj Mohamed
(Witwatersrand University)
12:00-13:30
Working Lunch
Open Discussion of the Role and Opportunities for Industrial Policy in Africa
and Directions for Future Research
Chairs: Justin Lin and Joseph Stiglitz
13:30-15:00
Session IX: Country experiences and perspectives from UNIDO
UNIDO, Ludovico Alcorta (UNIDO)
Mauritius, Sen Narrainen (Mauritius Government)
Singapore, Jang Ping Thia (Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore)
South Africa, Nimrod Zalk (South Africa Government..Industrial Development Division)
Africa Yaw Ansu (African Center for Economic Transformation)
15:00-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Session X: Closing Policymakers Panel
Ebrahim Patel
Joseph Stiglitz
Justin Lin
Celestin Monga
Rob Davies