{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"How global supply chains are built","description":"This is an episode from VoxDev's new podcast series, Ideas in Development. This series has a separate podcast feed, where you can find every episode of Oliver Hanney’s conversations with leading development thinkers.\n\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgwcv4fyU28\nApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-global-supply-chains-are-built-and-how-to/id1866874059?i=1000774798943\nSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EECcLVxxEQtkX3gJZcHGH?si=94e15ed7834a4e86\nAudioboom: https://audioboom.com/posts/8922412-how-global-supply-chains-are-built-and-how-to-actually-attract-investment\nSubstack: https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/how-global-supply-chains-are-built\n\nBill McRaith spent his career building supply chains – from 1980s Britain, to a factory in Panyu, China in 1990, to Ethiopia three decades later. He joins Oliver Hanney to explain what really attracts manufacturing investment to a developing economy, and why the model most countries are targeting no longer exists.\n\nIn this wide-ranging conversation we cover why China’s industry grew; why responsive local governments beat tax holidays; the collapse of the wage gap; how Ethiopia was chosen as a beachhead; and why apparel remains the right first-mover industry for countries not yet on the industrialisation road.","author_name":"VoxDev Development Economics","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4970774-voxdev-development-economics","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43786658/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}