John Sutton
John Sutton is an IGC Steering Group Member.
John Sutton is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He is also the Director of the STICERD Economics of Industry programme. A graduate of University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, he taught at the University of Sheffield before joining LSE in 1977. He has been a Visiting Associate Professor at Tokyo University, a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and a Visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.
He has written widely in the areas of microeconomic theory and Industrial Organisation. His books include Sunk Costs and Market Structure (MIT Press, 1981), Technology and Market Structure (MIT Press, 1998), and Marshall’s Tendencies: What Can Economists Know? (MIT and Leuven University Press, 2000). He has been a consultant for the World Bank since 2000, and served on the Advisory Committee on Access to the Japanese Market (Tokyo) from 1995 to 2002.
He served as a member of the Group of Economic Advisors to the President of the European Union from 2001-2004, and of the Enterprise Strategy Group (Ireland), which reported in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and of the British Academy, and was President of the Royal Economic Society from 2004 to 2007.
John Sutton’s personal website is at http://personal.lse.ac.uk/sutton/.
Content by John Sutton
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Publication - Policy note
Establishing a Local Content Unit for Rwanda
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Project
Improving supplier development linkages in the ‘Made in Rwanda’ policy: The potential of a Local Content Unit and a Firm Database
The Government of Rwanda has recently drafted a “Made in Rwanda” (MiR) Policy. This seeks to improve the overall trade balance by improving perceptions of Rwandan products within Rwanda, promote nascent industries, and boost productivity of exporting sectors (MINEACOM, 2017). Improving linkages between domestic suppliers and large exporting firms is a critical...
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Multimedia Item - Video
Harnessing FDI in Africa
John Sutton, IGC steering group member, discusses how African countries can attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and why it's crucial for creating jobs.
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Multimedia Item - Video
Public Lecture (video): Industrial Development – China and Africa
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Multimedia Item - Audio
Industrial Development: China and Africa
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Publication - Growth Brief
Growth brief: Harnessing FDI for job creation and industrialisation in Africa
During the last decade and a half, African economies grew at nearly double the rate of the 1990s. However, the commodity boom obscured a key weakness in African economic performance – slow manufacturing growth. Productivity increases in Africa, after 2000, happened without the deep structural change that shifts labour from low to high productivity jobs (McMillan et...
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Publications Reader Item
Harnessing FDI for job creation and industrialisation in Africa
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Publication - Project Memo
Gains from the natural gas: Local content and Tanzania’s industrial development (Project Memo)
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Publication - Project Memo
Developing a local content unit for Mozambique (Project Memo)
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Multimedia Item - Audio
Africa Growth Forum 2015: Public Lecture (Professor John Sutton)
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Project
Developing a local content unit for Mozambique
Mozambique’s gas reserves have the potential to transform the country into one of the world’s top energy exporters The challenge now is to generate local jobs as the gas industry grows and matures The report proposes the creation of a ‘Local Content Unit’ within the relevant Ministry The government is currently assessing the scope for...
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Multimedia Item - Audio
Growth Week 2014: Country Session - Tanzania
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Project
The Enterprise Map Series
Over the past decade, some half a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa have maintained high rates of economic growth. This growth, moreover, has been broadly based across the different sectors of the economy, with industrial output doubling within a decade in several cases. Among these fast-growing economies, Ethiopian, Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, and Mozambique have been the...
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Multimedia Item - Video
Video: John Sutton talks about the Enterprise Map of Ghana
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Multimedia Item - Video
Video: Africa Growth Forum 2014 - John Sutton
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Publication - Miscellaneous
An Enterprise Map of Mozambique by John Sutton
Mozambique's economy grew rapidly in the first decade of the millennium. Real gross domestic product more than doubled, and this growth was widely spread across sectors: manufacturing output grew even faster than gross domestic product, rising by a factor of 2.3 over the decade. A key economic question for Mozambique is whether this rate of growth can be sustained for...
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Publication - Miscellaneous
An Enterprise Map of Mozambique - Portuguese Version
The Portuguese translation of John Sutton's Enterprise Map study in Mozambique is now available for download.
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Publication - Miscellaneous
An Enterprise Map of Zambia
Over the first decade of the new millennium, Zambia's real GDP rose by 80%. Much of this rise came from the mining sector, but a substantial fraction came from the manufacturing sector, whose output rose by 50% in real terms over the decade. This volume provides a detailed account of Zambia's current industrial capabilities. From mining-related industries through general...
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Publication - Miscellaneous
An Enterprise Map of Tanzania
In the first decade of the new millennium, Tanzania's gross domestic product doubled in real terms, making it one of the handful of sub-Saharan economies that have shown strong and sustained growth in recent years. This growth was, moreover, broad based, with manufacturing output growing slightly faster than the economy as a whole. To maintain this rate of growth over the...
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Publication - Miscellaneous
An Enterprise Map of Ghana by John Sutton - Chinese version
The Chinese translation of John Sutton and Bennet Kpentey's Enterprise Map of Ghana is now available for download.
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Publication - Miscellaneous
An Enterprise Map of Ghana by John Sutton
Ghana's economy has grown rapidly over the past decade, and the goal of becoming a middle-income country in the fairly near future now seems attainable. The likely contribution of the oil sector makes the goal look all the more achievable. Yet this goal is unlikely to be attained without a substantial advance in Ghana's industrial capability. This volume presents the...
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Multimedia Item - Video
Video: Relevant Capabilities and Industrial Development: stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
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Publication - Miscellaneous
An Enterprise Map of Ethiopia by John Sutton - Chinese version
The Chinese translation of John Sutton and Nebil Kellow's Enterprise Map study in Ethiopia is now available for download.
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Publication - Miscellaneous
An Enterprise Map of Ethiopia by John Sutton
This book describes the history and current capabilities of Ethiopia’s leading industrial companies (agri-business, manufacturing and construction), focusing on 50 key large and mid-size firms. The motivation for the study is to help with the expansion of economic capabilities in the country by first understanding where the capabilities of the existing successful...