Dani Rodrik on Rethinking Development
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Bibliographic details
- Guest: Dani Rodrik
Key findings
- Manufacturing and industrialization have long been the development strategy for many countries in Asia.
- That strategy "has spurred growth and lifted millions out of poverty."
- Despite industrialization, most jobs remain in the untraded services sector.
- Making employment in traditional, domestic services like food, hospitality, and gig work more productive will lead to a more inclusive growth model.
- Dani Rodrik is Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School and co-directs its Reimagining the Economy program.
Policy implications and recommendations
- Prioritize productivity improvements in untraded, traditional domestic services (examples cited: food, hospitality, gig work) to achieve more inclusive growth.
- Rebalance development strategies to complement industrialization with targeted measures that raise productivity in service sectors where most employment occurs.
Context and production
- Episode title: Dani Rodrik on Rethinking Development.
- Publication/series: F&D Magazine / Development.
- Date: September 10, 2026.
- Host/producer: Bruce Edwards, International Monetary Fund; he produces the IMF podcast program and is an award-winning audio producer and journalist.
- Dani Rodrik is identified as the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School.