DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE SEMINAR: The Logic & the Method of Industrial Policy: Concepts & Practices, with Prof. Carlo Pietrobelli

Carlo Pietrobelli is Professor of International Economics at the University of Rome 3, Italy, where he directs the Research Centre on the Economics of Institutions (CREI, http://host.uniroma3.it/centri/CREI). He is also Delegate of the Rector for promoting University-Industry linkages and Head of the Industrial Liaison Office of the University of Rome 3 (since 2005). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
He has held positions in several Italian and foreign Universities and is a regular advisor to international organizations such as the European Commission, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, UNIDO, UNCTAD, ECLAC, OECD.

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• Failing to Compete: Technology Development and Technology Systems in Africa (with Sanjaya Lall), Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US: Edward ELGAR, 2002;
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• Industry, Competitiveness and Technological Capabilities in Chile. A New Tiger from Latin America?, London and New York: MACMILLAN and ST.MARTIN’S, 1998.