The Unintended Industrial Policy Benefits of Covid-19 in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorKiiza, Julius
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-28T10:26:15Z
dc.date.available2022-12-28T10:26:15Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis chapter examines a seemingly heretical subject matter, that is, the unintended benefcial impact of the otherwise disruptive novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes code-named COVID-19 (e.g. Ssali 2020). First detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019, COVID-19 was declared a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” on 30 January 2020 and reclassifed as a pandemic on 11 March 2020 (WHO 2020). That COVID-19 knows no social, political, gender, or racial boundaries is no longer debatable (WHO 2020). What has escaped scholarly scrutiny is the positive albeit the unintended benefcial impacts of COVID-19 (Baldwin and Eiichi 2020). Are there verifable industrial policy dividends of COVID-19? This question is important for two distinctive reasons – one theoretical and the other pragmatic. Theoretically, free-market fundamentalism – which has dominated national and global political economies for 40 years – associates globalisation with the sovereignty of private capital over sovereign states (Bhagwati 2004). Globalisation arguably signifes the supremacy of economic liberalism over economic nationalism. It signifes the death of country- specifc industrial policies that are theoretically faulted for undermining the market’s allocative efciency and promoting patronage politics (Kelsall et al. 2010).en_US
dc.identifier.citationKiiza, J. (2021). The unintended industrial policy benefits of COVID-19 in Africa. In Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa (pp. 645-657). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003143840-66en_US
dc.identifier.uri10.4324/9781003143840-66
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6686
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.subjectIndustrial Policy Benefitsen_US
dc.subjectCovid-19en_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.titleThe Unintended Industrial Policy Benefits of Covid-19 in Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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