APORDE is a two-week high-level annual seminar that brings together academics, policymakers and civil society representatives to investigate economic development options. It is aimed at building capacity in the South, particularly in Africa and founded on the need to broaden perspectives on development thinking and policymaking.

Lectures open to the public:

1. Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture

Alice Amsden and the escape from empire: Implications for the financing of late industrialisation after three decades of hyperglobalisation

Speaker: Stephanie Blankenburg (UNCTAD)
Date: Tuesday 3 September 2019
Time: 18h30
Venue: Auditorium, Industrial Development Corporation, 19 Fredman Drive, Sandton
Co-host: Industrial Development Corporation
RSVP: Rozale@tips.org.za

For more information go to Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture.

2. Inclusive industrialisation

Speakers: Ha-Joon Chang (University of Cambridge) and Rudi Dicks (DPME)
Date: Wednesday 4 September 2019
Time: 10h00 - 12:00
Venue: TIPS offices; 234 Lange Street Pretoria
Co-host: Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies
RSVP: Daphney@tips.org.za

For more information go to Development Dialogue: Inclusive Industrialisation. 

3. Political settlements and feasible anti-corruption strategies

Speakers: Mushtaq Khan (SOAS), Antonio Andreoni (SOAS), and Nimrod Zalk (the dti)
Date: Thursday 5 September 2019
Time: 14h00 - 16:30
Venue: Auditorium, Industrial Development Corporation, 19 Fredman Drive, Sandton
Co-hosts: Department of Trade and Industry, the University of Johannesburg's Centre for Competition Regulation and Economic Development, Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, and University of Cape Town's Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance
RSVP: YDavis@thedti.gov.za

For more information go to Political settlements and feasible anti-corruption strategies

4. Chinese firms and employment dynamics in Africa: a comparative analysis

Speaker:Speaker: Carlos Oya (SOAS)
Date: Monday 9 September 2019
Time: 17h30
Venue: JBS Tower, Corner of Barry Hertzog and Empire Roads (entrance Napier Road)
Co-host: DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Industrial Development based at the University of Johannesburg
RSVP: nabilanm@uj.ac.za

For more information go to Chinese firms and employment dynamics in Africa

5. Finance and structural change

Speakers: Seeraj Mohamed, Ben Fine (SOAS), Jonathan di John (SOAS)
Date: Tuesday 10 September 2019
Time: 18h30
Venue: Auditorium, Industrial Development Corporation, 19 Fredman Drive, Sandton
Co-host: Institute for Economic Justice
RSVP: Rozale@tips.org.za

For more information go to Finance and structural change

Business Day - 6 August 2019 by Neva Makgetla (TIPS Senior Economist)

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Business Day - 1 August 2019 by Gaylor Montmasson-Clair (TIPS senior economist)

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City Press - 31 July 2019 

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Session 4: NSI and the resourcing of innovation and R&D

Session 9: Innovation and sustainable growth and green industries, including the transtition to a low-carbon economy 

Session 11: Inclusive innovation to address poverty, unemployment and inequality 

WIDER Working Paper 2019/38

This working paper, Moving up the copper value chain in Southern Africa, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED)

Abstract

t: Interest in industrial hemp has revived in the past 20 years. Malawi is considering legalizing the cultivation of industrial hemp as an alternative cash crop to tobacco with great potential. This study considers the potential and challenges of creating an industrial hemp value chain between South Africa and Malawi, with Malawi concentrating on upstream cultivation and South Africa on downstream value-adding activity. The research supports a finding that industrial hemp offers strong opportunities as a niche market even if mainstream demand is slow to materialize or does not materialize at all. It also shows that undertaking such an inter-regional endeavour would be considerably more complicated than initially envisaged, given the agricultural structure and operation of the Malawian economy and its smallholder farmers.

Download Working Paper: https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publications/Working-paper/PDF/wp-2019-52.pdf

TIPS acknowledges the support of the SA-TIED programme for this working paper, with special thanks to UNU-WIDER and the South African Department of Trade and Industry.

Business Day - 23 July 2019 by Neva Makgetla (TIPS Senior Economist)

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Mail & Guardian - 5 July 2019 by Lynley Donnely 

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