On 14 September 2020 at 2pm (CET), GIZ’s Sector Project on Sustainable Economic Development, DIE and PEGNet, will host an online expert meeting "Industrial policy in times of pandemic - The risks and benefits of government intervention to build back better"
The COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis it caused increase the pressure on policy makers to actively engage in industrial policy-making: Subsidising or even rescuing companies, buying shares, offering state guarantees, introducing national controls of production of, or trade with, critical health products, etc. Also, with regard to post-COVID recovery schemes, specific investments are advocated for, e.g. in green technologies and digital capabilities.
This online event will start from the conceptual debate about "picking winners“ and then discuss appropriate industrial policies to build back better.
Speakers for the expert meeting are:
- Gabriel Felbermayr, President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
- Augustin K. Fosu, Professor, ISSER, University of Ghana
- Arkebe Oqubay, Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia
- John Page, The Brookings Institution and former director at the World Bank
- Lindsay Whitfield, Professor, Roskilde University
- Tilman Altenburg, Head of department "Sustainable Economic and Social Development", German Development Institute
The session will be moderated by Clara Brandi, Senior Researcher, German Development Institute.