Watch UCL IIPP in conversation's panel discussion which looks at mission-oriented policy-making and state-building for the Global Majority, exploring how issues of race, empire, class and coloniality intersect with IIPP founder Prof. Mariana Mazzucato’s framework for economic development laid out in ‘The Entrepreneurial State’.

The panel asks what it means to bring the histories, perspectives and voices of the Global Majority to the forefront across the social sciences - particularly in a context of increased geopolitical fragmentation, complexity and interdependence, and identify the key challenges in implementing the concept of ‘The Entrepreneurial State’ across the geographically and politically diverse Global South.

Building upon IIPP Visiting Professor Damon Silvers’ 2023 lecture series ‘The Pre- and Post-History of Brexit: Race, Class and Finance In the Making of British Economic Strategy’, the panellists showcase examples of mission-oriented policy approaches that seek to deal with challenges faced across the Global South such as climate change and achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

For this talk, the term "global majority" is used to denote the over 80% of the global population of people living in or with heritage from developing countries. This terminology is used as a more expansive alternative for thinking beyond the Global South-Global North binary.