What distinguishes Dr Arkebe from others engaged in shaping development strategy and industrial policy is his strong belief in sound empirical research to guide policy. Over the past several years, Dr Arkebe has been productively involved in policy research, in particular on industrial development, with a special focus on enterprise development, the role of the private sector in economic development, technology and know-how transfer to developing regions, economic transformation, and public policy.

Dr Arkebe’s research focus is on leading issues in development economics, with an emphasis on economic development and economic transformation, private-sector development, industrial development, industrial policy and economic catch-up, environmental sustainability, Africa, and global transformation. Among Dr Arkebe’s recent publications are the following:

Books

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INDUSTRIAL HUBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE, THEORY, POLICY
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HOW NATIONS LEARN: TECHNOLOGICAL LEARNING, INDUSTRIAL POLICY, AND CATCH-UP
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE ETHIOPIAN ECONOMY
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MADE IN AFRICA: INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN ETHIOPIA
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CHINA-AFRICA AND AN ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
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Forthcoming titles delivered and under review (2021‒22)

(1) The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy (Oxford University Press), co-edited with Fiona Tregenna and Imraan Valodia.
(2) Industrial Hubs and Development (Oxford University Press), a research monograph.
(3) The Art of Industrial Policy (Oxford University Press), a research monograph, co-authored with José Antonio Ocampo.
(4) The Handbook of Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability (Oxford University Press), co-edited with John Mathews.
(5) China’s Growth and Global Transformation (Oxford University Press), co-edited with José Antonio Ocampo.

Recent book chapters and research papers

Recent op-eds, blogs, and articles on COVID-19 and industrialization

‘Boris Johnson’s New Model Colonial Policy’, Project Syndicate (18 June 2020).
‘Ethiopia’s Unconventional COVID-19 Response’, Project Syndicate (29 May 2020).
‘How Africa can Fight the Pandemic’, Project Syndicate (17 April 2020).
‘When COVID-19 Comes to Africa’, Project Syndicate (13 March 2020).
‘Stop the Posturing on COVID-19’, Project Syndicate (5 March 2020).
‘“Global Britain” needs to fix its visa process’, The Financial Times (11 February 2020).
‘5 Principles to Guide Adaptive Leadership’, Ben Ramalingam, David Nabarro, Dame Ruth Carnall, Arkebe Oqubay, and Leni Wild, Harvard Business Review (September 11, 2020).
‘Adaptive Leadership in the COVID-19 response: insights from Ethiopia’, ODI Blogs (27 May 2020).
‘Governments must catch up to curb the coronavirus pandemic’, ODI Blogs (17 March 2020).
‘Will the 2020s be the decade of Africa’s economic transformation?’, ODI Blogs (14 January 2020).
‘Why industrialisation is vital for the African Continental Free Trade Agreement to succeed’ ODI Blogs (20 November 2019).
‘COVID-19-An Unprecedented Threat Requires Unprecedented Leadership’, Development Matters (24 April 2020).
‘Ethiopia’s Response to COVID-19’, Development Matters (26 May 2020).
‘How do Nations Learn? Why Development is First and Foremost About Learning’, Development Matters (28 November 2019)
‘Government Policy Responses to COVID-19 and the Private Sector in Africa: Lessons from Ethiopia’, World Bank webinar (7 May 2020).
‘AFRONOMICS: Responses to COVID-19 in Africa: Lessons from Ethiopia’, World Bank podcast (13 July 2020).
‘Global Value Chains in the Time of COVID-19: The Experience of Ethiopia and Vietnam’, World Bank webinar (29 July 2020).
‘Achieving inclusive and sustainable industrialization and the SDGs in a post-pandemic world’, UNIDO’s high-level virtual event (speakers include UNIDO’s Director General Li Yong, Professor Jeffery Sachs, and Ann Rosenberg), 20 October 2020.

Selected links

PRD AFRICA
OUP
ODI
Project Syndicate
OECD Development Centre
UNU-WIDER
ACET
CESifo