Boosting economic dynamics and job growth: the potential of industrial policies
The ILO and Friedrich Ebert Foundation organise a joint workshop to exchange experience between Government representatives from African, Asian and Latin American countries, international organisations and researchers on the role of industrial policies in accelerating the dynamics of productive transformation for job growth.
The focus of the workshop is on middle income countries.
The workshop is structured according to three larger themes:
Concept Note
The workshop is structured according to three larger themes:
- Promoting productive transformation – investment, finance, and trade policies
- Promoting domestic capabilities – a comprehensive learning strategy
- Government capacities and capabilities – getting the industrial policy process right
Concept Note
| Monday, 4 March 2013 | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcoming and introduction Matthes Buhbe, Director, FES Geneva José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director General for Policy, International Labour Office (ILO) (Opening Remarks) |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Setting the Scene: New industrial policies for catching up (Presentation, Paper) Irmgard Nübler, Coordinator, Productive Transformation and Industrial Policies Programme, Employment Policy Department, International Labour Office (ILO) |
Promoting productive transformation | |
| 10:45 – 12:45 | Investment policies fostering sustainable, job-rich growth patterns Foreign Direct Investment, Multinational Enterprises and Global Value Chains Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, Economic Cooperation and Integration Among Developing Countries, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Investment agreements Aaron Cosbey, Associate and Senior Climate Change and Trade Advisor, International Institute on Sustainable Development (IISD) |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Mobilizing state revenues for productive and social transformation Natural resource rents, aid, taxation and social funds Katja Hujo, Research Coordinator, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Trade Policies for productive transformation GVCs, the New Trade Narrative and the Industrial Policy Faizel Ismail, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO, Permanent Mission of the Republic of South Africa to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva Trade Agreements Esther Busser, Assistant Director, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) |
| Tuesday, 5 March 2013 | |
Promoting domestic capabilities | |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Enhancing options space and competences for productive transformation– a learning strategy Irmgard Nübler, Coordinator, Productive Transformation and Industrial Policies Programme, Employment Policy Department, ILO Infrastructure investment: from productive capacities to domestic capabilities Christoph Ernst, Senior Economist, Employment Policy Department, ILO |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Creating capabilities in the informal economy – ILO research fin-dings Formal institutions and informal enterprises Per Ronnas, Senior Employment and Development Specialist, Informa-tion and Knowledge Management Assignment, Employment Policy De-partment, ILO Improving informal apprenticeship Christine Hofmann, Skills Expert, Employment Policy Department, ILO Skills and technology transfer in value chains Uma Rani, Senior Development Economist, International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO Shifting enterprises from informal to formal productive activities Mario Berrios, Specialist, Enabling Environment, Small Enterprise Programme, ILO |
Government capacity and capability | |
| 14:00 – 15:15 | Experience from Latin America: Industrial policies in the light of global value chains and domestic capabilities Robert Devlin, Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies |
| 15:30 – 16:45 | Experience from Asia and Africa: Industrial policies in the light of global value chains and domestic capabilities Tilman Altenburg, Head of Department, Competitiveness and Social Develop-ment, German Development Institute |
| 16:45 | Closing remarks Matthes Buhbe, Director, FES Geneva José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director General for Policy, ILO |