The Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme (CSID)

(School Economics and Business Sciences)

and

The Global Labour University (GLU)

at

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

invite you to a talk:

Four sources of ‘de-industrialisation’ and a new concept of the ‘Dutch Disease: Is South Africa going through a process of 'premature' de-industrialisation?

by

Professor Gabriel Palma*

(Cambridge University)

10:00am -12:00pm

23 May 2007

Borkum-Hare Room, 1^st Floor, New Commerce Building, West Campus

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

This talk is being held within the framework of the APORDE Seminar (African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics) with the kind support of the South African Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), the Embassy of France in South Africa and the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS)

For more information contact Seeraj Mohamed at Seeraj.mohamed@wits.ac.za

* Gabriel Palma is a Chilean national.  He is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, where he has taught Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Development and Economic History since 1981.  He is also co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and a member of three ‘Task Forces’ in Joseph Stiglitz Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University (‘Capital Market Liberalisation’, ‘Macroeconomics for Developing Countries’, and ‘Industrial Policy in Developing Countries’).  His research interests predominantly focus on two areas: the economic history of Latin America, and the political economy of recent economic reforms in Latin America and Asia (including papers on income distribution, de-industrialisation, financial crises in Latin America and East Asia, capital controls in Chile and Malaysia, trade and industrial policies, and the political economy of economic reforms in Mexico, Brazil and Viet Nam).  He has also published on the history of ideas in Development Economics and Politics, especially on radical critiques of the current orthodoxy.  He is co-editor of books on Nicholas Kaldor’s and Richard Kahn’s contributions to political economy; he is also co-editor of a book on the 1997 East Asian financial crisis and of a two-volume feschrift for Geoff Harcourt.  He is currently writing an economic history of Latin America since independence, and a book on the political economy of neo-liberal reforms in Latin America and East Asia.