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APORDE 2019: Public lectures

  • Date: Tuesday, 03 September 2019
  • Venue: See programme

Rudi Dicks websiteHa Joon Chang websiteGarch Strachem website

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