Using Foreign Direct Investment to Upgrade and Diversify Exports from Morocco: Opportunities and Challenges in Comparative Perspective
OCP Policy Center is pleased to host Theodore Moran on Thursday 31 March at 17h00 for a talk on Using Foreign Direct Investment to upgrade and diversify exports from Morocco : opportunities and challenges in comparative perspective.
Developing countries that manage to upgrade and diversify their export profile grow more rapidly and achieve greater welfare gains than countries that simply export larger volumes of what they have traditionally produced. But the effort to upgrade and diversify a country’s export profile – thereby changing the fundamental structure of the domestic economy -- is beset with numerous difficulties and obstacles.
This discussion begins by examining what market imperfections and other impediments make the task of using FDI to upgrade and diversify exports so difficult, deriving conclusions from looking in comparative perspective at the efforts of other emerging market countries. The discussion will then identify best practices for making progress, on the one hand, and examining tricky impediments that lead to failure, on the other.
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Theodore Moran
Non Resident Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics
Theodore H. Moran is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He holds the Marcus Wallenberg Chair at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, where he teaches and conducts research at the intersection of international economics, business, foreign affairs, and public policy. Dr. Moran is founder of the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy, and serves as Director in providing courses on international business-government relations and negotiations to some 600 undergraduate and graduate students each year. Professor Moran received his PhD from Harvard.
Dr. Moran is a consultant to multinational agencies and governments on strategies to use foreign direct investment for development, to foster supply chain expansion, and to promote backward linkages via local vendor development and certification programs. He is advisor to the Trade and Competitiveness Initiative of the IFC/World Bank.