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Dr Rory Horner
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Rory Horner is a Lecturer in Globalisation and Political Economy of Development, ESRC Future Research Leader and Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute. He is an economi
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Rory Horner is a Lecturer in Globalisation and Political Economy of Development, ESRC Future Research Leader and Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute. He is an economic geographer by training, with research interests in the political economy of globalisation, industrial development, trade, India and Africa. He holds a BA from Trinity College, Dublin and a PhD in Geography from Clark University. His current research is focused on South-South trade, and involves a major project on India's pharmaceutical industry and local pharmaceutical manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa