Routledge Handbook of Industry and Development

List of contents

1. Editorial Introduction 2. Manufacturing as an Engine of Growth 3. Patterns of Structural Change and Manufacturing Development 4. Patterns of Structural Change in Developing Countries 5. Industry, Employment and Poverty 6. Deindustrialisation: An Issue for both Developed and Developing Countries 7. What Role for Small Enterprises? Industrial Clusters, Industrial Policy and Poverty Reduction 8. Industrial Policy: Back on the Agenda 9. Import Substituting Industrialisation (ISI): Can or Should We Divorce Industrialisation and Trade Strategies? 10. New Directions of Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Development 11. Global Value Chains in Manufacturing Industry: Where they came from, Where they are going and Why this is important 12. Electronics and Global Value Chains 13. Global Value Chains in Apparel: Still a Path for Industrial Development? 14. The Role of Special Economic Zones in Manufacturing Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Structural Transformation and Employment Creation 15. International Competitiveness in Manufacturing and the China effect 16. Is the choice of technique debate still relevant? 17. Technological Learning in Developing Counties 18. Mexico’s New Industrial Organisation since the 1980s: Glocal Challenges from Export-orientation and Polarisation 19. Industrial development in India 20. Is there an Africa problem? 21. Industrial development in Tanzania 22. Manufacturing in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Performance and Policy

About the author

John Weiss is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics, University of Bradford, UK.

Michael Tribe is Honorary Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Summary

This Handbook is a global overview of industrialisation. Each chapter will provide readers with contemporary insights into this this essential aspect of economic development. It aims to illuminate uneven development and takes stock of the current issues that hinder and support industrialisation in low and middle income economies. This aut

Product details

• Authors: John (University of Bradford Weiss, John Tribe Weiss
• Assisted by: Michael Tribe (Editor), Tribe Michael (Editor), John Weiss (Editor), Weiss John (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367867973
• ISBN: 978-0-367-86797-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Routledge International Handbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Economics of industrial organisation, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Manufacturing industries, Development economics and emerging economies, Media, Information & Communication Industries, Economics of industrial organization