Over two days and eight sessions, the Reimagining the Economy Project brought together researchers and policy practitioners from around the world to take stock of the range of current thinking in productive development policies.
In eight sessions over two days, speakers addressed questions such as: how are governments using the tools of industrial policy across a range of domains and objectives - to navigate the energy transition, growth in agriculture and small and medium enterprise, to enable innovation and job creation, and to address regional disparities? What new approaches are being used? How do approaches of emerging and advanced economies differ? Stemming from all of this, what are the institutional arrangements and state capacity concerns undergirding the implementation of these policies? Who are the actors and agencies involved and what roles do they play? How are the capabilities of these actors being built?
Panel summaries and takeaways
- Taking Stock: Recent Evidence on Industrial Policy
- Institutions and Governance for Industrial Policy
- Directing Inclusive and Sustainable Growth: A New Approach to Industrial Policy with Conditionalities
- Industrial Policy for Innovation
- Industrial Policy for the Green Transition
- The Imperative to Redirect Technological Change
- Industrial Policy for SMEs
- Industrial Policy for Good Jobs
Some take aways from the conference on industrial policy today.
Interesting political economy talk of industrial policy: working within the constraints of state capacity & pol economy.
There are clever ways in which LICs/MICs work to do industrial policies.— Nathan Lane (@straightedge)
Fantastic panel on lessons we can learn from global experiences with industrial policy, with and .
Myrto talking Chinese shipbuilding excess capacity. Has 50-70% market share today.— Todd N. Tucker (@toddntucker)
Institute Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matt Andrews
Edward S. Mason Senior Lecturer in International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University
Jie Bai
Assistant Professor in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Global Co-Lead for Labor and Skills, World Bank
Head, Productivity Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Science Technology and Innovation Directorate, OECD
Founding Partner, HacePeru.pe; Former Minister of Production, Peru
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California Los Angeles
Gordon Hanson
Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, and Faculty Co-Director, Reimagining the Economy Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Ricardo Hausmann
Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, and Founder and Director, Growth Lab, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor of Government, Harvard University
Fellow & Director - Powering Livelihoods, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Asim Khwaja
Director, Center for International Development, Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School
Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University
Associate Professor in Economics, Oxford University
Assistant Professor of Economics, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
Professor in the Economics of Innovation & Public Value, University College London (UCL); Founding Director, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
So Kwan Lok Chair of Chinese International Affairs, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
Dani Rodrik
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor of Law and Social Science, Columbia Law School
Professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey, former IDB Representative in Mexico
Economist, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Union; Lecturer in Public Policy, Cambridge University
Deputy Head of School (Research) and Professor of International Political Economy, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA) at UNSW Sydney
Director, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Washington, D.C.; former Minister of Foreign Trade, Costa Rica
Assistant Professor, Institute for Public Policy, Diego Portales University
Chief Research Officer: Climate and Development, University of Cape Town Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance; Former Deputy Director-General: Sectors in the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition