Last week, we co-hosted a three-day ๐๐น๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐บ๐ป ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น with the Transnational Institute and EthicsLab, featuring an outstanding group of young scholars and practitioners from across the Global South. This school was aimed at developing an intellectual community around industrial development that goes beyond the narrow prioritisation of aggregate GDP growth and instead responds to social needs, the climate crisis, increasingly hostile geopolitics, and the need to achieve development in the Global South.
The school took a collaborative approach, with participants developing papers that formed the basis of the sessions, which were facilitated by peers. The AIDC was able to share its needs-based approach to green industrial policy through both framing inputs and the presentation of a paper prepared for the school.
Based on the recognition that industrial policy must respond to South Africaโs deep crises of poverty, unemployment and inequality, the AIDCโs approach is to focus industrial policy on meeting basic needs and supporting social policy, such as the provision of housing, while creating climate jobs through a focus on climate adaptation.
