Participants Alexander Keese Discussant – Panel 3: Methods and Sources Alexander Nützenadel Discussant – Panel 1: Laissez-faire or State Control Amit Das Gupta Contribution title: “Capitalist Countries enforcing Planned Economies in the Developing World. The Cases of India, Pakistan and Turkey” Andrea Franc Contribution title: “Changing concepts of fair trade (ca. 1950 to 1980)” Annette Skovsted Hansen Contribution title: “Global History of the Ghanaian Black Star Shipping Line, 1957 – 1997” Ayesha Omer Contribution title: “Disputed Grounds and Digital Freedoms: Pak-China Fiber Optic Cable in Gilgit-Baltistan” Carles Brasó Broggi Discussant – Panel 2: Infrastructure, Raw Materials and Beyond Cyrus Schayegh Contribution title: “State enterprises in the Middle East: three global dimensions” Eric Burton Discussant – Panel 4: Connections, Contexts and Networks Frank Gerits Contribution title: “Neoliberalism in the Global South: the African Development Bank and changing ideas about development” Glenda Sluga Discussant – Concluding Discussion/Outlook Grietjie Verhoef Contribution title: “State-owned enterprise: Africa’s market, the state and economic performance in the post-independence era” Joanne Tomkinson Contribution title: “Rewriting Ethiopia’s place in the world: the Ethiopian aviation industrial complex” Luca Puddu Contribution title: “Development for whom? The struggle for control of the Development Bank of Ethiopia, 1950-1955” Malak Labib Contribution title: “Manufacturing Development: A Case-Study of the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company (1945-1965)” Marie Huber Contribution title: “Why a site-specific history of state-enterprises matters” Mariusz Lukasiewicz Contribution title: “From Decolonisation to Financial Globalisation: Towards a Modern History of Stock Exchanges in Africa, 1960-1994” Nathalia Capellini Contribution title: “Private-public relations in the Brazilian electric sector during the military dictatorship (1964-1985)” Neveen Abdelrehim Contribution title: “Economic Independence and the Responses of National Oil Companies during Decolonisation: The Case of Malaysia and Iran” Sarah Kunkel Contribution title: “Farming and Nation-Building: Nkrumah’s State Farms and Decolonisation” Shakila Yacob Contribution title: “Economic Independence and the Responses of National Oil Companies during Decolonisation: The Case of Malaysia and Iran” Simon Mollan Contribution title: “Economic Independence and the Responses of National Oil Companies during Decolonisation: The Case of Malaysia and Iran” Stefan Tetzlaff Contribution title: “Private Origins of the Public Sector: West German Businesses, State Enterprise and Development Planning in India and Nigeria, c. 1954-1985” Zhaojin Zeng Contribution title: “Between Socialist Impact and Imperial Legacies: The Transnational Making of State Enterprises in Twentieth-Century China”