The Future of Industrialization in a Post-Pandemic World

Industrialization, facilitated by an industrial policy to remove infrastructural and other bottlenecks, is essential for generating decent jobs and eliminating poverty and hunger in a developing country. The governments in most developing countries will have fewer resources to use industrial policies in the post-pandemic recovery. With less and limited resources, the government’s industrial policy should aim for quick wins by helping existing firms, reinvigorating the existing industrial parks, and retaining the existing foreign direct investments before the situation returns to normal.

Join the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) on Tuesday, September 13, for a discussion with Justin Yifu Lin on the future of industrialization in a post-COVID-19 pandemic world. This webinar is part of the Fall 2022 Global China Research Colloquium.

Speakers:

Justin Yifu Lin, Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics and Honorary Dean of National School of Development at Peking University; Previous Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012

Kevin P. Gallagher (Moderator), Director, Boston University Global Development Policy Center; Professor of Global Development Policy, Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University