Ha-Joon Chang

Bringing production back to development

Production – or, more precisely the transformation of productive structure and capabilities – used to be at the heart of the debate on economic development. However, the issue of production has almost disappeared from the development discourse in the last few decades and development has become almost synonymous with poverty reduction. Join debate on 27th April at 6:00 pm CET live at https://kapuscinskilectures.eu/.

Monday 27.04.2015

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Jessica Budds is Professor of Development Geography at the University of Bonn since 2022. She has an interdisciplinary background in Latin American studies and environmental studies, and has worked at the interface of human geography and development studies over the last two decades, with a regional focus on Latin America. Her research explores how economic change shapes environmental policy in the Global South, and its implications and effects for the lives, livelihoods and landscapes of low-income groups. Her main foci have comprised neoliberal policies including water privatisation and markets, the increased demand for water for industrial sector growth, and the concept and implementation of water security, especially in response to drought. She uses a framework based on hydrosocial relations to understand how water-society relations are shaped by power, and the implications and effects of these in different contexts. She also co-chairs the University of Bonn’s innovative joint master’s programme with the United Nations University, MSc Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security. 

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Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at the University of Cambridge. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has published 15 authored books (four co-authored) and 10 edited books. His main books include The Political Economy of Industrial Policy, Kicking Away the Ladder, Bad Samaritans, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, and Economics: The User’s Guide. His writings have been translated and published in 36 languages and 39 countries. Worldwide, his books have sold around 1.8 million copies. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize. He was ranked no. 9 in the Prospect magazine’s World Thinkers 2014 poll.
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