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The Unicamp Institute of Economics invites you for the lecture "From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification: a developmental approach to managing resource revenues", which will be given by Dr. Amir Lebdioui (London School of Economics). The event is organized by the Center for the Study of International Economic Relations (Ceri) and the Center for Industrial Economics and Technology (Neit).

The management of revenues from exhaustible natural resources involves a number of challenges. In order to rethink this issue among resource-rich and commodity-dependent countries, a developmental perspective is adopted, suggesting an alternative resource revenue management model based on gradual scale-up of investments in productivity-enhancing assets, which would enable the alignment of both short-term stabilization and long-term diversification.

These ideas will be explored in the webinar and are detailed in the paper coauthored with Professor Ha-Joon Chang (University of Cambridge).

Download the paper here: https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publications/Working-paper/PDF/wp2020-108.pdf

* - Dr Amir Lebdioui is a fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he leads the Canning House Research Agenda on the future of trade and green growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Amir’s research examines the interplay between industrial policy, natural resource management, climate change and the sustainable development agenda. He is also an affiliated lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, and an associate at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He regularly carries out consultancies and provides analyses for international development organizations such as the UNCTAD or the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge.

Date: October 7th, 2020 – 02H PM (GMT-3)

Link to watch: https://youtu.be/jxATqr1W6Kg