Growth Corridor Vision and its Realities. Insights for Development in Africa with Prof. Revilla-Diez

Prof. Javier Revilla Díez will reflect on the realities and insights of the development corridor programs overtook in Africa in the last decades.

Prof. Javier Revilla Díez holds a Chair in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne. He was appointed within the framework of the key profile area “Socio-economic, Cultural, and Political Transformations in the Global South” of the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne, supported by the German Excellence Initiative. Before, Revilla Diez holds a Chair in Economic Geography at the Institute for Economic and Cultural Geography, University of Hannover. He is member of the advisory board of the Lower Saxonian Institute for Economic Research (Niedersächsisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung). Revilla Diez graduated at Hannover University in Geography (1991) with economics, regional planning and hydrology as a minor. In 1995 he completed his PhD at the University of Hannover on the regional transformation process in Vietnam. 2001 he finished his “habilitation” on metropolitan innovation systems in Europe. From 1991 until 2002 he was employed at the University of Hannover.

00:00. Introduction by Andrés Rodriguez-Pose, Director of Cañada Blanch Centre and Princesa de Asturias Chair.
03:45. Prof. Javier Revilla Diez presents "The Growth Corridor Vision and its Realities - Insights for Development in Africa"
50:20. Discussion and Q&A
1:19:07. Goodbye from Andrés Rodriguez-Pose, Director of Cañada Blanch Centre and Princesa de Asturias Chair.