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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463528103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

©1984

ISBN

1-136-87794-0

0-203-83848-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Development ; ; volume 41

Disciplina

338.9009172409048

Soggetti

Industrialization - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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