The spread of the manufacturing industry is an important part of
economic development, creating jobs, new products and trade and
investment links between countries. Understanding this process is
an important part of understanding how countries develop and how
they are affected by current globalization. The economic geography
of the world has been changing significantly in the last few
decades with old established industrial centres in the developed
countries in decline, and new centres emerging in countries that
were once thought of as poor and still developing. However, this
process has been very uneven with some parts of the developing
world still largely non-industrial.
This book aims to explain this process from the perspective of
developing countries. It charts current trends in industrial
development drawing on available statistics and explores different
perspectives on the role the manufacturing industry can play.
The book covers topics including:
- aspects of trade policy as they affect industry
- the international rules of the World Trade Organisation
- the network of links between firms in different parts of the
world economy.
Separate chapters examine:
- the special role of small firms and of technology in
industrialisation
- government policy towards the encouragement of industry,
drawing particularly on the experience of economies in East Asia
(the original Asian Tigers)
- recent developments in China and India and their implications
for other countries.
The book draws on simple concepts of economic theory but avoids
a technical mathematical approach and should be accessible to a
wide audience. It extends and updates the author s earlier work on
industrialisation published by Routledge (Industry in Developing
Countries, 1990 and Industrialisation and Globalisation, 2002) and
aims to present a comprehensive overview of these important
contemporary issues. The book is suitable for both undergraduate
and graduate level courses, but will also be invaluable to
professionals working in development.
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