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From: Emma Holland, Centre for East Asian Studies [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: CEAS SEMINAR - CHINA IN AFRICA - OCTOBER 26TH
THE RISE OF THE 'ASIAN DRIVERS' AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGY - AFRICA IN QUESTION
by Professor Raphael Kaplinsky
Date: Monday 26th October 2009
Time: 4.00pm-5.30pm
Location: Drawing Room, Royal Fort House, University of Bristol. Tyndall
Avenue
Map: <http://www.bris.ac.uk/university/maps/precinct.html> (building 30)
Synopsis:
The rise of China and India changes the gravity of global accumulation. In
so doing it also alters the parameters affecting the choice and execution
of development strategy. How viable will the commitment to
industrialisation - and in particular, export-oriented industrialisation -
be in the face of their growing share in global manufacturing value added?
Are new opportunities opened for resource-based development strategies?
What are the implications of their growth for inequality and poverty in
other low-income economies, and with what impact on the balance of class
power? These issues will be discussed in relation to the growing footprint
of China in Africa.
Raphael Kaplinsky
Originally from South Africa, Raphael Kaplinsky was educated at the
Universities of Cape Town and Sussex. By profession an economist and
political economist, he is currently Professor of International Development
at the Open University. Formerly he was for many years a Professorial
Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. From
the early 1990s he pioneered much the research on the reorganisation of
manufacturing industries in developing countries that is now conceptualised
in terms of 'global value chains'. An advisor to the EU, the World Bank,
other international agencies and a number of governments across the
developing world, Professor Kaplinsky's latest book is, Globalisation,
Poverty and Inequality (Polity Press, 2005). For now and the foreseeable
future his principal research commitment is to the global network on the
implications of the 'Asian Drivers' (of the world economy) for the rest of
the developing world, for which he is a key figure.
All welcome,
many thanks
Emma
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