Mausam Kumar
mausamk.bsky.social
Mausam Kumar
@mausamk.bsky.social
Postdoc at Princeton. Mostly industrial policy, development finance, green transition.
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Can innovative conditionality design help better navigate fiscal space constraints and disciplining constraints that are endemic to industrial policy in developing countries?

I will be presenting some of our ongoing research on this at the PDC December seminar.

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PDC December Seminar
PDC's December Seminar series, with talks by Mausam Kumar and Rebecca Ann Jones. Lunch provided (bring your own beverage).
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Can innovative conditionality design help better navigate fiscal space constraints and disciplining constraints that are endemic to industrial policy in developing countries?

I will be presenting some of our ongoing research on this at the PDC December seminar.

www.eventbrite.com/e/pdc-decemb...
PDC December Seminar
PDC's December Seminar series, with talks by Mausam Kumar and Rebecca Ann Jones. Lunch provided (bring your own beverage).
www.eventbrite.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Mausam Kumar
The explosion of outward foreign direct investment commitments into green manufacturing supply chains is not evidence of an expansionist Chinese state but the consequence of domestic firms seeking to escape cut-throat competition at home, writes Mausam Kumar.
China’s FDI, not the BRI, drives a global green transition
The explosion of outward foreign direct investment commitments into green manufacturing supply chains is not evidence of an expansionist Chinese state but the consequence of domestic firms seeking to escape cut-throat competition at home, writes Mausam Kumar.
eastasiaforum.org
October 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Reposted by Mausam Kumar
Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says rather than what it does or is likely to do is a problem, I argue in @science.org. In how we understand NDCs we run the risk of a climate 'ambition trap'
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Avoiding the climate “ambition trap”
At the United Nations General Assembly in September, President Xi of China delivered a noteworthy update in what has been a dismal year for climate news: China would reduce its greenhouse gas emission...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Reposted by Mausam Kumar
Industrial policy is back — and it's changing fast. What started as "green" strategy is now a global race for clean tech competitiveness and economic security. But do we actually know what works? That's what we're asking at the New Energy Industrial Strategy (NEIS) Center. /1
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reposted by Mausam Kumar
In his forthcoming book Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, @drodrik.bsky.social offers new, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues.

Out November 4. Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
October 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Please come if you are in DC for annuals: On Thursday, October 16, join JHU SAIS + the GDP Center for the launch 📚 of 'China and the Global Economic Order,' my new book w/Gregory T. Chin, published by Cambridge University Press in its Global China series.
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Book launch: "China and the Global Economic Order"
FPI Senior Fellow Gregory Chin and co-author Professor Kevin Gallagher discuss their new book with Professor David M. Lampton.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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"Out of a total factory employment of 18.5 million, Tamil Nadu accounts for one out of every seven manufacturing jobs in the country."

NEW Mausam Kumar, Benjamin Bradlow, and Vishnu Venugopalan on the southern state of Tamil Nadu’s manufacturing prowess
Coordinating Tamil Nadu | Mausam Kumar, Benjamin H. Bradlow, & Vishnu Venugopalan
How India’s southernmost state transformed into a global manufacturing hub
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August 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Delighted to have this out in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social where @bhbradlow.bsky.social, Vishnu Venugopalan, and I bring out the drivers of institutional coordination in Tamil Nadu’s industrial transformation and argue for coherent subnational imaginations of IP in federal democratic settings.
August 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM