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SUMMARY:Is Ethiopia Africa's break-out developmental state? - Joe Studwell
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1991 victory against the Derg Maoist regime\, the Et
 hiopian government has been trying to replicate and adapt the developmenta
 l state approach used in different iterations in Japan\, ROK\, Taiwan\, PR
 C and Vietnam. This is a stage-based model proceeding from land reform and
  high-yield household farming to manufacturing development and rapid infra
 structure build-out. The policies are conditioned on a significant degree 
 of financial repression at an early stage\, with financial sector liberali
 sation following later. In order to achieve their objectives\, Ethiopia's 
 leaders are attempting to manage a transmission of policy-making ideas acr
 oss continents\, similar to what the Meiji Japanese did in the late 19th c
 entury. Joe Studwell has just returned from a two-week tour of Ethiopia at
  the invitation of the central government with a view to benchmarking deve
 lopmental progress against his experience of east Asia's major economies. 
 The driver for the trip was Joe's last book\, How Asia Works\, which has b
 een quite widely read by Ethiopian leaders and policy-makers. It was a fir
 st trip for Joe\, but with high levels of access at central and local leve
 ls\, and he will provide some early thoughts on the prospects for the Ethi
 opian developmental dream.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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