This panel addresses current shifts underway in thinking about industrial policy – its objectives and modalities, its place within a larger economic strategies – and the implications of those shifts for the existing architecture of international economic governance. The existing set of international rules governing industrial policy reflect a prior orthodoxy about industrial policy characteristic of the 1990s. What might be needed to re-shape those rules in light of new thinking and new practice over the last decade? Can we see an emerging new consensus on the proper purposes and modalities of industrial policy, or do the conditions for consensus no longer exist?
Speakers
• Tom Goodwin, Senior Adviser, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
• Professor Stefanie Rickard, London School of Economics (Department of Government)
• Professor Ming Du, Durham, Law School
• Dr Lorenzo Cotula, International Institute for Environment and Development
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