Third World industrialisation in the 1980s : open economies in a closing world / edited by Raphael Kaplinsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplinsky, Raphael, editor.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Development ; v. 41.

Routledge library editions. Development ; volume 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrialization--Developing countries.

Industrialization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1984, this work explores the issues surrounding the industrialisation of the Third World at the beginning of the 1980s. The expectation that Newly Industrialising Countries would facilitate industrial growth via an outward-orientated strategy had begun to be the combination of growing recession, growing protectionism and the diffusion of radical microelectronics-related technical change. In addition, the high indebtedness of developing countries made them increasingly dependent on assistance from the IMF and IBRD, whose policies increased the tendency towards de-industrialis

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Editor''s Preface; Industrialisation Strategies in Less Developed Countries: Some Lessons of Historical Experience; Trade, Industrialisation and the Visible Hand; Private International Finance and Industrialisation of LDCs; The International Context for Industrialisation in the Coming Decade; Developmental States and Socialist Industrialisation in the Third World; Industry and Underdevelopment Re-examined

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebrary, viewed 10/14/2014).

ISBN:

1-136-87794-0

0-203-83848-3

9780203838488

OCLC:

892799842