Developing countries have undergone significant industrialization in the last three decades. Yet industrial growth reveals marked spatial inequalities in terms of both country and location. The Newly Industrialised Countries have achieved spectacular growth in sharp contrast to many other countries of the South. Industrial structure has changed, moving away from labour intensive industries to more technologically advanced manufacturing. Developing countries have had considerable success in penetrating developed country markets but they are now encountering more market restrictions. The role of the government in the development of the economy is also changing. Increasingly, countries are turning towards export-orientated industrialization strategies and privatization whilst their governments are emphasising their facilitative role.

The restruturing of industrial production, the international division of labor, and continual technological change place developing countries in a global process of industrialization. This book clarifies the positive and negative aspects of this process and examines two different theoretical approaches used to achieve industrialization. The book first focuses on the international economy through examining in detail two relatively successful Third World industrializers--Brazil and South Korea, and than shifts its emphasis to the specific aspects of industrialization such as technology, gender relations, culture and the environment.

An introductory development studies text which puts industrialization into theoretical context, examines the forms it has taken, and considers economically efficient and socially responsible alternatives.

Using firm-level data from the engineering industries in India and South Korea, charts the evolution of the firms and the industry as a whole during the liberalization process that happened in both countries during the 1980s. Reviews the changes in policy, then combines four full case studies with information from other case studies to explore such issues as entry barriers to international industry and the role of previous policies in accumulating competitive capabilities. Draws lessons on how state intervention can foster internationally competitive firms. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Study of industrialization and economic development in developing countries - examines the role of the industrial sector and industrial policies; studies industrial growth, choice of technology, role of multinational enterprises, protectionism and link with the agricultural sector; discusses development planning, production and employment in manufacturing, investment, rural development, financing of industrial development and the role of the the public sector; contains case studies of India, Brazil and Bangladesh. Bibliography, graphs.

Res. en inglés y francés.

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-industrialisation. The papers in this volume explore all of these issues and their implication for LDC industrial strategy in the 1980s.