Latest news: Routledge Handbook of Industry and Development by John Weiss and Michael Tribe reviewed in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. To read the review, visit here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13547860.2016.1146491
Recent reports:
Structural change for inclusive and sustainable industrial development - UNIDO
Indirect taxation
Development Banks in the BRICs: the Brazilian case
Climate change: Southeast Asia will suffer without urgent action
Taxonomy of Industrial Policy (UNIDO Working Paper)
Industrial Policy in High-Income Economies, E15 Expert Group with ICTSD and World Economic Forum
Strategic Industrial Policy and Business Environment Reform: Are they compatible? The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development
Recent reports:
Structural change for inclusive and sustainable industrial development - UNIDO
Indirect taxation
Development Banks in the BRICs: the Brazilian case
Climate change: Southeast Asia will suffer without urgent action
Taxonomy of Industrial Policy (UNIDO Working Paper)
Industrial Policy in High-Income Economies, E15 Expert Group with ICTSD and World Economic Forum
Strategic Industrial Policy and Business Environment Reform: Are they compatible? The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development
John Weiss is a development economist with over 40 years of experience in advising, teaching and researching on issues of economic development. He is an international authority on project analysis and industrialisation policy and has published widely these and other topics. He is the author of 8 books and the editor of 9 and has published in key development journals including World Development, Journal of Development Studies, World Economy and Oxford Development Studies.
He is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at the University of Bradford, UK where he has previously held various positions, most recently Acting Dean of School. Whilst on long term leave from the University he has held full-time positions as Advisor to the Chief Economist, Ministry of Industry, Government of Mexico, (1980-82), staff economist at the European Investment Bank (1992-1995), and Director of Research at the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo (2001-2006). Whilst at the Institute he directed studies on poverty reduction and industrialisation and trade in Asia.
He has worked as a consultant on issues of economic policy for amongst others the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation and the World Bank.
He has taught training courses on project analysis to staff of the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the European Commission and the World Bank and to public sector officials from amongst others Egypt, Ghana, Jamaica, Serbia and Tanzania.
He is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at the University of Bradford, UK where he has previously held various positions, most recently Acting Dean of School. Whilst on long term leave from the University he has held full-time positions as Advisor to the Chief Economist, Ministry of Industry, Government of Mexico, (1980-82), staff economist at the European Investment Bank (1992-1995), and Director of Research at the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo (2001-2006). Whilst at the Institute he directed studies on poverty reduction and industrialisation and trade in Asia.
He has worked as a consultant on issues of economic policy for amongst others the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation and the World Bank.
He has taught training courses on project analysis to staff of the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the European Commission and the World Bank and to public sector officials from amongst others Egypt, Ghana, Jamaica, Serbia and Tanzania.