Edited by Arkebe Oqubay, Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Ethiopian Government, Christopher Cramer, Professor of the Political Economy of Development, SOAS, University of London, Ha-Joon Chang, Reader in economics, University of Cambridge, UK, and Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division, UNCTAD

Arkebe Oqubay is a Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia and has been at the centre of policymaking for over twenty-five years. He is a research associate at the Centre of African Studies in the University of London, and holds a PhD in development studies from SOAS, University of London. He is the former mayor of Addis Ababa and winner of the ABN Best African Mayor of 2006, and finalist for the World Mayor Award 2006. He is a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star and serves as board chair of several leading public organizations and international advisory boards. His work includes Made in Africa: Industrial Policy in Ethiopia (OUP, 2015); African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy (OUP, 2019); and China-Africa and an Economic Transformation (2019, OUP). He was recognized as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2016, and a 'leading thinker on Africa's strategic development' by the New African.

Christopher Cramer is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at SOAS, University of London. He is a vice-chair of the Royal Africa Society and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE). His publications include Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries (2006), African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy (with Sender and Oqubay, OUP, 2020) and The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (2019, co-edited with Cheru and Oqubay). He led the research project Fairtrade, Employment, and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda.

Ha-Joon Chang (PhD) is reader in economics at the University of Cambridge. His main books include Kicking away the Ladder, Bad Samaritans, 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism, and Economics: The User's Guide. By 2018, his writing will have been translated into forty-one languages in forty-four countries. Worldwide, his books have sold around 2 million copies. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize.

Richard Kozul-Wright (PhD) is Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division in UNCTAD. He has worked at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva. Dr Kozul-Wright is the author of many books, including The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit: Development, Debt and Disillusion (2018, with S. Blankenburg and M. Bateman), Securing Peace: State-Building and Economic Development in Post-Conflict Countries (2011, with P. Fortunato), Climate Protection and Development (2012, with Frank Ackerman) and The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism (2008, with Paul Rayment). He is a frequent contributor to newspapers worldwide on economic issues, including The Financial Times, The Guardian, and Project Syndicate.

Antonio Andreoni, Associate Professor in Industrial Economics at University College London (UCL), and Research Head of UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Samantha Ashman, Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Johannesburg, and Director of the UJ-IDEP MPhil in industrial policy programme.

David Bailey, Professor of Business Economics at the University of Birmingham and Senior Fellow of the ESRC's 'UK in the Changing Europe' programme.

Michael H. Best, engaged in industrial restructuring policy in London, Massachusetts, Slovenia, Cyprus, Jamaica, Honduras, Malaysia, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and has written production audits based on extensive factory visits in many other countries.

Patrizio Bianchi, Professor of Economics at the University of Ferrara, Italy, and Minister for Education and Research in the regional government of the Emilia-Romagna region.

Ha-Joon Chang, reader in economics at the University of Cambridge.

Muyang Chen, Assistant Professor at the School of International Studies, Peking University.

Horman Chitonge, Professor at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town (UCT).

Mario Cimoli, Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

Christopher Cramer, Professor of the Political Economy of Development at SOAS, University of London.

Lisa De Propris, Professor of Regional Economic Development, University of Birmingham.

Jonathan Di John, Senior lecturer in the political economy of development at SOAS, University of London.

Budi Akmal Djafar, PhD candidate in economics at the New School for Social Research, New York.

Giovanni Dosi, Professor of Economics at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy and continental Europe editor of the journal Industrial and Corporate Change.

Daniel E. Esser, Associate Professor in the American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC.

Piergiuseppe Fortunato, Economist at the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development.

Rainer Kattel, Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London.

Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division in UNCTAD.

Sandrine Labory, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

Michael A. Landesmann, Professor of Economics at Johannes Kepler University, and head of the Department of Economic Theory and Quantitative Research.

Peter Lawrence, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Keele University, UK.

Keun Lee, Professor of economics at the Seoul National University, Fellow of the CIFAR programme on Innovation, Equity and Prosperity, and founding director of the Center for Economic Catch-up.

Chen Li, Assistant professor at the Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

John A. Mathews, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Macquaire University, Sydney.

Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP).

William Milberg, Dean and Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and Director of the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School.

James H. Mittelman, Distinguished Research Professor and University Professor Emeritus at the American University.

Susan Newman, Professor of Economics at the Open University, UK.

José Antonio Ocampo, Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and Chair of the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Arkebe Oqubay, a Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, and a research associate at the Centre of African Studies in the University of London.

Robert Pollin, Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the founder and President of PEAR (Pollin Energy and Retrofits), an Amherst, MA-based green energy company operating throughout the United States.

Vladimir Popov, Principal Researcher in the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Emeritus at the New Economic School in Moscow, and an adjunct research professor at the Institute of European and Russian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Gabriel Porcile, Economic Affairs Officer at ECLAC and Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Parana, Brazil.

Rajah Rasiah, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Malaya.

Erik S. Reinert, Professor at Tallinn University of Technology and guest researcher at the Centre for Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Bergen.

Simon Roberts, Professor of economics at the University of Johannesburg and an Economics Director at the UK's Competition and Markets Authority.

Fernando Santiago Rodriguez, Industrial Policy Officer at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and a member of the scientific board of the Latin American Network for the Study of Learning Systems, Innovation and Competency Building (LALICS).

Stephanie Seguino, Professor of Economics, University of Vermont, USA and Fellow, Gund Institute for the Environment.

Roman Stöllinger, Staff Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), and lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, teaching international macroeconomics and industrial policy.

Servaas Storm, Senior Lecturer at Delft University of Technology, and editorial board member of the journal, Development and Change.

Fiona Tregenna, the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Industrial Development, and is also a professor of economics at the University of Johannesburg.

John Weiss, Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at the University of Bradford, UK.

Lindsay Whitfield, Professor (with special responsibilities) in Global Studies and leader of the Centre of African Economies in the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark.

Xiaodan Yu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Nottingham University Business School, China.

Nimrod Zalk, is Industrial Development Adviser at the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and sits on the board of the South African Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and chairs the steering committee of the Industrial Development Think Tank (ITT) at the University of Johannesburg.