New Perspectives on Strategies and Contributions from Developing Country Firms and their Interaction with Governments ACADEMIC PANEL – Monday 21 August 11.30 am – 1.00 pm – KP7 EADI-NORDIC Conference 2017, Bergen, August 21-23 Conveners: Søren Jeppesen, Copenhagen Business School (sj.msc@cbs.dk) Peter Kragelund, Roskilde University (jpk@ruc.dk)

The program Introduction, welcome and presentation of participants 1st Presentation & Discussion: Doing Business in Zambia: Private Sector Development Policies and Firm-level Challenges among Local Agribusinesses and Suppliers to the Mines, by Peter Kragelund and Soeren Jeppesen 2nd Presentation & Discussion: Understanding Development Effectiveness of State-Business Relations: A Research Agenda, by Jodie Thorpe 3rd Presentation & Discussion: State-business relations in the tourist industry in Tanzania: Institutional and regulatory challenges, by Goodluck Charles Urassa Summary discussion and conclusion of panel

Rationale One-sided focus on the Private Sector as the Only Development Agent – Often Multinationals The perspective from the LOCALLY OWNED Companies AND The relations to the State as well (State-business relations) SAFIC – Successful African Firms and Institutional Change project 2012- 2017 (Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania ) – see: http://www.cbs.dk/en/research/cbs-research-projects/major-research- projects/successful-african-firms-and-institutional-change-safic Business, Markets and the State – Institute of Development Studies, UK: http://www.ids.ac.uk/team/business-markets-and-the-state