Technological Dependence, Monopoly, and Growth

Technological Dependence, Monopoly, and Growth

Author: Meir Merhav

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1483145905

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Technological Dependence, Monopoly, and Growth presents the major difficulties of growth that the underdeveloped countries encounter after their initial steps towards industrial progress. This book discusses the problems of economic development in many underdeveloped countries. Comprised of five chapters, this book begins with an overview of the vast differences between the levels of income in the developed and the underdeveloped countries. This text then examines the limited alternatives of underdeveloped economies to the adoption of methods and scales of production that evolved in the advanced economies in adaptation to their large markets and factor proportions. Other chapters consider the complications introduced by the problems of foreign trade. This book discusses as well the kind and degree of government intervention that would result to the transformation of the fundamental characteristics of a capitalist system. The final chapter deals with the economic integration of underdeveloped countries. Economists will find this book useful.


Dependent Development

Dependent Development

Author: Peter B. Evans

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0691186804

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In order to analyze Brazil's recent accumulation of capital in the light of its continued dependence, Peter Evans focuses on the relationships among multinational corporations, local private entrepreneurs, and state-owned enterprises that have developed in Brazil over the last decade. He argues that while relations among the three kinds of capital continue to be contradictory, a triple alliance has been formed that provides the social structural basis for the pattern of local industrialization that has emerged. The author begins with a review of the theories of imperialism and dependency in the third world. Placing the Brazilian experience of the last twenty years in its historical context, he traces the country's evolution from the period of "classic dependence" at the turn of the century to the current stage of "dependent development." In conclusion, Professor Evans discusses the implications of the Brazilian model for other third world countries. Examining the nature of the triple alliance as it is manifested in such industries as pharmaceuticals, textiles, and petrochemicals, the author reveals the complex differentiation of the groups' roles in industrialization and lays bare the grounds for their collaboration and their conflict. He consequently shows how the differing interests, power, and capabilities of the three groups have combined to produce a system promoting industrialization that benefits the elite partnership but excludes the larger population from the rewards of growth.


New Directions in Development Economics

New Directions in Development Economics

Author: Mats Lundahl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-10

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1134808828

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This volume is divided into two thematic parts: economic growth (or its absence) in developing countries; and contributions to the debate on the role of the state versus the market. It outlines possible policy prescriptions of relevance both in the North and South.


Indian Industrial Development and Globalisation

Indian Industrial Development and Globalisation

Author: S. K. Goyal

Publisher: Academic Foundation

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 910

ISBN-13: 9788171887224

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Surinder Kumar Goyal, b. 1933, Indian industrial economist; papers presented at the National Conference on Industrial Development and Economic Policy Issues, held at New Delhi during 27-28 June 2008.


Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development (RLE International Business)

Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development (RLE International Business)

Author: Rhys Jenkins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1135133026

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Is the transnational coporation (TNC) an engine of growth capable of eliminating international economic inequalities or a major obstacle to development through a massive drain of surplus to advanced countries? This book presents five different perspectives on the role of TNCs: Neo-Classical Global Reach Neo-Imperialist Neo-Fundamentalist Internationalization of capital The author looks at their effect on local labour and capital, and considers the future prospects for TNC involvement in the Third World. The book provides an excellent comparative analysis of TNCs and will appeal to students in development studies and international economics.


From Adjustment To Development In Africa

From Adjustment To Development In Africa

Author: Giovanni Andrea Cornia

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1994-09-22

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1349235962

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This book considers the principal sources of agreement and disagreement among policymakers and analysts concerning the current economic problems of Sub-Saharan Africa. A distinguished collection of international and African authors, including economists from the IMF and the World Bank, as well as their critics, addresses the key policy issues in agriculture, trade, macroeconomic management, social issues, privatization, external capital flow, and political economy. An introductory interpretive essay searches for areas of consensus and identifies those of continuing controversy.


Third World Industrialization in the 1980s

Third World Industrialization in the 1980s

Author: Raphie Kaplinsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-26

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1136877940

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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.


Handbook of Innovation Systems and Developing Countries

Handbook of Innovation Systems and Developing Countries

Author: Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1849803420

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The innovation systems (IS) approach emerged as a theoretical framework in the industrialized world in the mid-1990s to explain innovation and growth in the developed world. This Handbook is the first attempt to adapt the IS approach to developing countries from a theoretical and empirical viewpoint. The Handbook brings eminent scholars in economics, innovation and development studies together with promising young researchers to review the literature and push theoretical boundaries. They critically review the IS approach and its adequacy for developing countries, discuss the relationship between IS and development, and address the question of how it should be adapted to the realities of developing nations. Spanning national, sectoral and regional innovation systems across Asia, Latin America and Africa, and written by the world s leading scholars within the field, this comprehensive Handbook will strongly appeal to academics, researchers and students with an interest in innovation and technology in developing countries.