Premature Deindustrialization & Thin Industrialization

27 July 2021, Version 1
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Abstract

What happens when the most dynamic entrepreneurial businesses in a country are effectively born global, or when most advanced production facilities are owned and operated by foreign firms which turn out products invented elsewhere? Is thin industrialization the result of policy failure, or is it systemic and unavoidable? Can it be unwound by neo-nationalists? What impact does this have on working and middle classes and social development?

Keywords

Thin Industrialization
Premature Deindustrialization
Global Value Chains

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Comment number 1, Sourish Dutta: Jul 27, 2021, 13:23

Reference: Whittaker, D. H., Sturgeon, T., Okita, T., & Zhu, T. (2020). Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic and Social Development. Oxford University Press.