In Focus: Opportunities and Challenges for Africa's Industrialisation

Описание: In this episode of In Focus, we interview Dr. John Page, Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution and Country Director for Tanzania at the International Growth Centre, to get his take on prerequisites for industrialisation, opportunities and challenges for Africa's industrialisation, and role of governments in driving industrialisation.


Dr. Page is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki, Finland. He has been a consultant to the African Development Bank, the Global Development Network, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the United Nations Industrial Development Program (UNIDO), USAID and the World Bank.

Dr. Page was formerly Chief Economist for Africa and Director of Poverty Reduction at the World Bank. Prior to his appointment at the World Bank, he was a member of the faculty at Stanford and Princeton Universities. He has held visiting professorships at Princeton, the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University.