Development Studies Seminars 2025-2026 | Industrial Policy and African-based Manufacturing: Institutional dimensions
The Development Studies Seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, promotes research carried out in the areas of study of the Masters in Development and International Cooperation (MCDI) of ISEG and the PhD Programme in Development Studies of the University of Lisbon
Development Studies Seminars 2025-2026
Topic: Industrial Policy and African-based Manufacturing: Institutional dimensions
Presenter: Professor Howard Stein (Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, USA)
Date: 28 October 2025 (Tuesday)
Hour: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Venue: Novo Banco Room, 4th Floor Quelhas Building, ISEG (Access by Rua do Quelhas 6 1200-731, Lisbon, Portugal)
Free admission, in person event. Lecture in English.
About the presenter
Howard Stein is a Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) at the University of Michigan. He is a development economist educated in Canada, the US and the UK who has taught in both Asia and Africa. He is the editor or author of more than a dozen books and edited collections and more than 100 journal articles, book chapters and reviews. His research on Africa has focused on foreign aid, finance, structural adjustment and neoliberalism, RCTs, health, gender and development, health and the environment, institutional transformation, industrial policy, export processing zones and other industrial parks, agricultural policy, poverty and rural property right transformation, income inequality and Chinese investment in manufacturing. He teaches a variety of courses in DAAS and Epidemiology including the history of African economic development, Africa and post-war development theory and policy, globalization and African health, the political economy of African development and health and socio-economic development.
Stein’s seminars with CEsA:
Author: CEsA Communication (comunicacao@cesa.iseg.ulisboa.pt)
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