🚀 Let’s continue with “History of policy space – the last 500 years” 💬📊 🌍 Featuring SOAS University of London DLD Director Professor Ha-Joon Chang & Professor Richard Kozul-Wright (Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation, SOAS; former chief economist, UNCTAD)

🚀 Upcoming panel: “The Current Policy Space for Industrial Policy (WTO, EPA, FTAs, BITs, AfCFTA)” 💬📊 🌍 with Rob Davies (former Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa), Richard Kozul-Wright, Yemi Dipeolu (former economic advisor to the President, Nigeria), Liz May (DLD)

🚀 Upcoming panel: The Emerging Industrial Policy Landscape and Policy Space 🏭♻️ 🌍 with Ha-Joon Chang, Antonio Andreoni (Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation), Rachel Thrasher (Boston University), José Miguel Ahumada (University of Chile; former deputy foreign minister for trade negotiations, Chile)

It's a fallacy to think that most poor countries can't do industrial policy because they don't have the state capacity to do it. Building state capacity is a process. In 1950, practically everyone said that East Asian countries lacked state capacity. Look where they are now.

What is #TheAfricaWeWant? 🤔 We asked Daniel Ikuenobe, CEO of Elevate Africa, who shared his thoughts on an Africa which is able to meaningfully engage on the world stage as an equal partner.

🚀 From day 2 of SOAS University of London DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨ 🎤 First panel “Negotiating Policy Space – Practitioners’ views” with Yemi Dipeolu, Muhammad Irfan (trade negotiator, Pakistan), Duncan Green (LSE; formerly Oxfam), Liz May (DLD) 💬🌟📊

🚀 From day 2 of SOAS University of London DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨ 🎤 Second panel “Ecological Crisis and Policy Space” ♻️ with Antonio Andreoni (Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation), Jostein Hauge (University of Cambridge), Isabel Estevez (Roosevelt Institute) 💬📊

🚀 From day 2 of SOAS University of London DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨ 🎤 Third panel “Geopolitical Re-alignments and Policy Space” 🗺️♻️ with Richard Kozul-Wright, José Miguel Ahumada, Jostein Hauge, Rob Davies 💬📊

🚀 Kicking off Day 3 of SOAS University of London DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨ 🎤 First panel “Issues in Policy Space – Tariffs, Subsidies, and FDI regulations (TRIMS)” 🏭🏦 with Ha-Joon Chang (SOAS Economics), Muhammad Irfan, Yemi Dipeolu 💬📊

🚀 Upcoming panel: Issues in Policy Space – Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), Dispute Settlements and Procurement ⚖️📚 🌍 with Rob Davies, Rachel Thrasher, Isabel Estevez 💬📊

📌 Concluding panel – How to expand policy space and how to use it 🌟📊 🎤 With Ha-Joon Chang, Rob Davies, Yemi Dipeolu, Duncan Green 💬🌍

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🚀 SOAS University of London DLD welcomes applications for the upcoming Future Leaders Programme: 💡High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities🌎 📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025 📍 London 📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025 🔗apply here⬇️ tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8

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🚀 SOAS University of London DLD welcomes applications for the upcoming Future Leaders Programme: 💡High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities🌎 📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025 📍 London 📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025 🔗apply here⬇️ tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8

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🚀 Last 2 days to apply for the next SOAS University of London DLD Future Leaders Programme !!!⚠️ 💡High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities🌎 📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025 📍 London 📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025 🔗apply here⬇️ tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8

A must-watch for anyone interested in policy space! Ha-Joon Chang reflects with José Miguel Ahumada (former Deputy Trade Minister, Chile), Rob Davies (former Trade and Industry Minister, South Africa), Liz May (DLD) and Rachel Thrasher (Boston University). youtu.be/-LEkF9D_2lY?si…

🚀 Last day to apply for SOAS University of London DLD Future Leaders Programme! 💡High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities🌎 📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025 📍 London 📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025 🔗apply here⬇️ tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8

📌 Today on Financial Times our SOAS University of London #Economics Professor Ha-Joon Chang on: 📊 Economics teaching has become the Aeroflot of ideas 💡 ⚠️ The discipline is failing students by ignoring the biggest social, political and ecological challenges facing the world 🌍 🔗 ft.com/content/9aabb4…