New horizons? : Third World industrialization in an international framework
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New horizons? : Third World industrialization in an international framework
Longman Scientific & Technical , Wiley, 1990
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Bibliography: p. [209]-214
Includes index
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Description
The purpose of this book is to provide a framework for studying industrial development in the large number of countries that make up the developing world. It aims to compare the nature of Latin American industrialization with that other Third World regions, most notably East Asia. For whereas the orientation of Latin American manufacturing has been inward-looking for most of the 20th century, the record of industrialization in East Asia can provide many examples of outward orientation in manufacturing. In order to better understand the background and implications to the debate, the first part of the book sets out an international framework for the argument. Part 1 of the book gives an indication of both the opportunities and threats that the world economy can imply for developing countries. The basic conclusion (and argument of the book) is that the opportunities are increased and the threats reduced if developing countries can manage to industrialize. Chapter 5 introduces some of the economic and socio-cultural theories that have specifically looked at the question of industrial development and evaluates the institutional role of government within the industrializing process.
The remaining chapters of Part 2 examine how developing countries themselves can best take advantage of their relationship with the global economy through trade, technology transfer and foreign investment from multinational corporations. The themes of manufactured exports, technology transfer, the generation of domestic technology and the role of foreign investment in industrial development are returned to in the sectorial case study of the book in Part 3, the motor car industry in the Third World. Part 4 contrasts industrialization between Latin America and East Asia, and the present and future role of the industrialization in other Third World regions is discussed. However, the author concludes by emphasizing another geographical point of a global scale - the present and future locational shift of manufacturing industry to what has come to be called the Pacific rim.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The international framework: the evolution of an interdependent world - world production and trade in the 19th century, the world economy in the 20th century, economic cycles and their impact
- international trade and economic growth - international trade theory and the Third World, price behaviour of primary products, terms of trade
- capital constraints on Third World development - capital flows into Latin america since World War II, capital flows and the Third World. Part 2 Perspectives on industrial growth in the Third World: theories of industrialism and the role of government - the Rostow model, the Gerschenkron model, the Parsonian approach, relevence for Third World industrialization, the role of government
- trade policy and industrialization - trade strategies and industrial growth, trade liberalism in Chile 1973-87, implications of the Chilean model
- global shift? product life cycles and protectionism
- technological change - economies of scale, import substitution, export promotion, import substitution, export promotion and technological change
- the multinational corporation and Third World industrialization - changing nature and spatial influence of multinational corporations, some theoretical perspectives. Part 3 Case study: The global case industry and the Third World - past transformations in the world car industry, the fourth transformation?, the Third World car industry - strategies for growth, technological divergence - Third World as marginal producer. Part 4 Continental perspectives: Latin America - the heritage of inward-oriented industrialization - the origins and nature of inward orientation, towards a new phase of outward orientation?, inward orientation and spatial concentration
- East Asia - the heritage of outward orientation - the Japanese case study, prospects for further generations of industrializing countries in East Asia
- Third World industrialization in an international framework - the case for outward orientation, the future for industry in the Third World, the Pacific rim-focus of manufacturing growth into the 21st century.
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