In a new contribution to the OPEC Fund for International Development’s 50th anniversary publication, TIDE Director Amir Lebdioui reflects on a deceptively simple question: why do some development strategies succeed while others fail, even when countries appear to follow the same policy “recipe”? Drawing on examples from South Korea, China, Chile, Costa Rica and Viet… Read more: AMIR LEBDIOUI CONTRIBUTES TO OPEC FUND’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION | WHAT MY MOTHER’S COUSCOUS TEACHES US ABOUT GREEN INDUSTRIAL POLICY

The green industrialisation race is unfolding within a transformed geopolitical landscape, marked by intensifying great-power competition, the fragmentation of multilateral trade governance, and China’s emergence as the world’s leading producer of electric vehicles (EVs), batteries, and other clean technologies. As Chinese firms increasingly globalise the production of these technologies through overseas manufacturing investment, new opportunities… Read more: WORKING PAPER 103 | Who’s in the Driver’s Seat?

The climate crisis and the energy transition pose significant challenges for peripheral countries. In the case of Latin America, this situation is exacerbated by regional fiscal and institutional limitations, along with specific challenges in financing large-scale green investments. These vulnerabilities, known as the triple vulnerability, encompass environmental, external, and fiscal dimensions (Bedossa, 2023), leading to… Read more: WORKING PAPER 102 | Breaking Fiscal Barriers

Despite the scientific consensus that fossil fuel production requires drastic curtailment to avoid exceeding 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, the supply-side question of which countries should start phasing out which fuels, and in what sequence, remains without a rigorous and comprehensive methodology addressing, capacity, responsibility concerns, and ecological impact altogether. This paper introduces the PACER index… Read more: WORKING PAPER 101 | Which countries should stop extracting oil and gas first?

We study the long-run growth outcomes of the diverse group of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation countries and argue that to achieve high sustained growth, the standard growth recipe is not sufficient. This recipe largely fails to tackle pervasive market failures such as coordination failures and information asymmetries, stifling export diversification, innovation, and growth. We… Read more: WORKING PAPER 99 | For an industrial policy renaissance in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation countries