- Paperback: 347 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; illustrated edition edition (9 July 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198773331
- ISBN-13: 978-0198773337
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"Excellent coverage by leading researchers."-- A. Sillitoe
"Useful survey of key issues in industrialization."-- Dr. R. Sumit, City University, London
"Useful survey of key issues in industrialization."-- Dr. R. Sumit, City University, London
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This book focuses on the issue of industrialization, and the problems of debt and inequality. It examines the theories behind ways of achieving industrialization, and uses two major case studies - South Korea and Brazil - to illustrate two different theoretical approaches - market theories and structuralist theories. The book starts by presenting detailed case studies of the process of industrialization in Brazil and South Korea, from World War II to the 1980s. This is followed by an analysis of the contexts and issues arising from the two cases. The authors look at how Brazil and South Korea fit into the international industrial economy; what linkages exist between the debt problem and industrialization, and which technology strategies have been adopted in practice. In the light of the above case studies and issues, the last part of the book examines the ways in which different theories of development shed light on the possible paths to industrialization pursued by developing countries.
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How does industrialization change people's lives - on an individual level and at the level of nation states? This is a crucial question for anyone interested in development and is the focus of a number of well renowned writers in this superb book. Using the "economic miracle" of Brazil and one of the SE Asian "tigers", South Korea, as case studies, this book examines the major schools of economic theory that have dominated development thinking since the Second World War. In addition to a thorough analysis of these two specific situations, the authors present a wide variety of other examples from around the world.
How the international debt crisis has become a ball and chain around the feet of many developing nations is explored and possible ways forward are examined. The latter chapters take a cross-cut of issues related to industrialization from four different perspectives: technology, gender, environment and culture. These perspectives build on the insights of the economic theories presented and provide essential windows into how and why industrialization has happened in a variety of ways and with such widely diverse results in different parts of the globe.
Industrialization and Development is not a light read. Having said that, the precise academic text is well punctuated with examples, charts, diagrams and guidelines that aid the reader in getting to grips with complex concepts. It is an essential textbook for students of development, development practitioners and anyone seriously interested in the plight of those peoples and nations who are late off the starting blocks in terms of industrialization.
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