Nationality: Georgia
Affiliation: University of Kassel
Student Status: Student
Level of Education: Ph.D.
Field of Study: Other Social Sciences
Joined: February 26, 2019
Salome Topuria
Berlin, DE
Member: Keynesian Economics, Latin America, Core, Economic Development
Organizer: Political Economy of Europe, States and Markets
Working groups
Research Interests
- International Trade
- Industrialization
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
- Governance
- Capitalism
- Emerging Markets
- Employment
- Inequality
- Keynesian Economics
- Political Economy
- Poverty
- Social welfare
- Alternative Development Paths
- Alternative Economic Models
- Center and Periphery
- Critical Theory
- Decolonization
- Economic Geography
- Economic History
- European Political Economy
- Financialization
- Free Trade Agreements
- Global South
- Global Value Chains
- Marxian Economics
- Innovation
- Industrial Policy
- Transition to Green Economy
- Welfare State
- Environment
- Political Economy of Development
About my research
The economic liberalization processes have been common in Georgia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, however rigorous application of the Washington Consensus agenda started in 2004. Georgia was not the first developing country to implement the set of economic recommendations as provisioned by the Washington Consensus but perhaps it was first in implementing them without any reluctance. Georgian government has neither an official strategy nor unified policy directives on extremely important issues such as export diversification, infant industry protection, industrialization, FDI management or labor market skill development. My research: “Progressive Industrial Policy in Open Economies: The Case of Georgia” aims to scrutinize the discourse about active role of the state through institutionalized industrial policy. By incorporating theoretical debates on state theory and peripheral state, the study aims to go beyond developmental state paradigm and portray the necessity of implementing progressive industrial policy not only in terms of conventional economic catch-up, but more importantly in terms of structural socioeconomic transformation.