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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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.

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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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

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...

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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"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

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.