2. Networks for Prosperity Initiative
About the N4P initiative
Objective:
To inspire for new forms of development partnership that facilitate the
access of developing countries to policy-relevant knowledge in the field of
economic and private sector development.
What we did so far:
Not creating another separate website or platform but acting as a
catalyst for consolidating existing knowledge sources, including local
resources and facilitating access to them for developing countries
Acting as a conceptual knowledge provider in the fields of South-South
knowledge networking, global connectedness and network governance
3. Networks for Prosperity Initiative
Networks for Prosperity:
Connecting development knowledge beyond 2015
Towards a New Era of Networked Development
Historic background: Development of the MDGs
New partners: BRICS, emerging economies and non-state actors
From Busan and Rio to the post-2015 debate
The critical role of middle-income countries (MICs)
9. Networks for Prosperity Initiative
UNIDO model for structural transformation
Various ways exist for how ‘state of industrialization’ can be defined and
represented.
Ricardo suggests a static view on a country’s export structure to determine it
economic complexity.
UNIDO goes one step further and looks at dynamic processes of “structural
transformation” that allow countries to use the insights for their economic and
industrial planning.
This should help countries to avoid the “middle-income trap” of being stuck in
an economic situation of eternal “middle-income” status without sustainable
and wide-spread prosperity development.
10. Networks for Prosperity Initiative
Conclusions
Evidence points to the effect network participation has on economic growth –
network participation increases information flows and knowledge transfers,
allowing states to better participate in global economic networks.
A division emerges between highly networked and less networked societies.
Various ways exist for how ‘state of industrialization’ can be defined and
represented. It is proposed to consider a scientific model, looking at industrial
development challenges that lower middle income and upper middle income
countries with different demographic and geographic characteristics are likely
to face in their particular stages of development.
UNIDO’s industrialization model suggests a “structural transformation”,
based on a dynamic economic analysis, to avoid the “middle-income trap.”
11. Networks for Prosperity Initiative
Networks for Prosperity:
Connecting development knowledge beyond 2015
Recommendations
Connectedness should be central to the post-2015 agenda
Middle-income countries should enhance their development role
South-South cooperation as effective way for achieving development goals
Advance research on connectedness in industrialization
