15 minutes • Episode 5

Podcast: Conversations on Transformation Series

Chinese Imports and Industrialization in Africa - Marina Ngoma

08 March 2023

The Conversations on Transformation series, narrated by Tim Phillips, investigates some of the most important new research in structural transformation, growth and economic development.

Interviewers

Tim Phillips

Interviewees

Marina Mavungu Ngoma

In this fifth and final episode, Tim talks to Marina Ngoma (Tufts University) about how Chinese imports have spurred manufacturing employment in Ethiopia.

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Read Chinese Imports and Industrialization in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia by Marina Ngoma (Tufts University) presented at the STEG Annual Conference 2023.

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