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World Development : An Introduction.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849640411
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: World DevelopmentDDC classification:
  • 338.9/1
LOC classification:
  • HD75.W667 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Examples -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Summary of Contents -- Introduction -- Aim of the Book -- SECTION I: World Development: Globalisation in Historical Perspective -- Introduction -- 1.1 The Expansion of Europe: Mercantile Trade 1500-1750 -- 1.2 Industrial Capitalism and 'Free Trade' 1750-1875 -- 1.3 Imperial Trade and Imperial Rivalries 1875-1945 -- 1.4 Superpower Competition and the Long Boom 1945 70 -- 1.5Debt, Crisis and the Third World 1970 90s -- 1.6 Globalisation in the Millennium -- SECTION 2: Globalisation: Industrialisation and Trade -- Introduction -- 2.1 The Latin American NICs: Import Substituting Industrialisation ( ISI) -- 2.2 The East Asian NICs: Export Orientated Industrialisation ( EOI) -- 2.3 Competing Perspectives on Trade Policy -- 2.4 People Trade: Globalisation and Immigrant Enterprise -- SECTION 3: Country Studies -- Introduction -- 3.1 Cyprus: Industrialisation Under Conditions of Globalisation -- 3.2 Spain: Economic Development Under Conditions of Autarky -- 3.3 South Korea: Free Market Miracle or Mirage? -- 3.4 Mexico: The Long March of Industrialisation -- 3.5 China: Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl -- SECTION 4: Commodity Studies -- Introduction -- 4.1 Copper: Chilean Miners - British Smelters in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 4.2 Tourism: The Spanish Tourist Industry -- 4.3 The Global Textile Industry: An Engendered Protectionism -- Conclusions -- Development and its Discontents -- Appendix 1. Of Noble Savages and Lazy Natives -- Appendix 2. The Third World: An Activity -- Tables -- Figures -- Notes -- SECTION 2.1 -- SECTION 2.2 -- SECTION 2.3 -- SECTION 2.4 -- SECTION 3.1 -- SECTION 3.2 -- SECTION 3.3 -- SECTION 3.4 -- SECTION 3.5 -- SECTION 4.1 -- SECTION 4.2 -- SECTION 4.3 -- CONCLUSIONS -- References -- Further Reading.
Glossary -- Notes on Authors -- Index -- Africa -- 16 -- 28 -- 132 -- 'lazy native' 220-2: 'lazy native' 223 -- per capita incomes, 91 -- colonialism, and 'winds of change', 38 -- declining GDP, 89 -- failure of SAPs, 91 -- loses in trade talks, 95 -- loses in trade talks, 235 -- Agriculture -- diminishing returns to, 41 -- protectionism and CAP [Common Agricultural Policy], 46-7 -- subsistence production, 22 -- Arab countries 212 -- Arab merchants -- 14 -- 16 -- Argentina -- 68-9 -- crisis of ISI, 74 -- Asian crisis -- South Korea and largest 'rescue' in history, 142-3 -- South Korea and largest 'rescue' in history, 145 -- Thailand, 80 -- world growth rates, 81 -- Australia, California, UK, 81 -- chronology, Thailand -- chronology, 'domino effect' -- chronology, 80 -- chronology, 80 -- chronology, 86 -- financial markets, 85 -- financial markets, 214 -- IMF 'rescue' packages, 78 -- impact on immigrant workers, 82-3 -- impact on Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, 79-81 -- impact on Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, 141-2 -- Indonesia, 80-1 -- Indonesia, 87 -- Indonesia, 248 -- role of short-term lending, 80-1 -- role of short-term lending, 142 -- role of short-term lending, 234 -- stabilisation and role of China, 164 -- Association] 37 -- Ayia Napa 123 -- Balkans -- 212 -- 213 -- Bangladesh -- and garment industry -- and London immigrants -- 2 -- 102 -- 133 -- 144 -- 193 -- 194 -- 197 -- 228 -- Barshefsky, Charlene, US Trade Secretary 216 -- Biggles, that boy 221-2 -- Blair, Tony 78 -- Boserup, Ester, women and marginalisation in industrialisation 198 -- Brazil, crisis of King Coffee -- 'exhaustion' and crisis, 73-5 -- 'triple alliance', 66 -- 'triple alliance', 73-4 -- 'triple alliance', 233 -- Import Substitution, 'forced' 'golden period' -- Import Substitution, 'forced' 70.
Import Substitution, 'forced' 72-3 -- Petrobras, 66 -- populism and nationalism, 70-2 -- role of external borrowing, and Grande Carajas Programme -- role of external borrowing, and Grande Carajas Programme -- role of external borrowing, 74-5 -- role of external borrowing, 74-5 -- role of external borrowing, 247 -- role of external borrowing, 247 -- Bretton Woods institutions -- origins and purpose collapse -- origins and purpose 35-6 -- origins and purpose 45-6 -- Bukharin, Nikolai -- 31 -- 210 -- Bulgaria 107 -- capital-intensive industries -- and technology -- 138 -- 149 -- ship-building, 137 -- South Korea and Pohang Steel Mill, 137-8 -- steel, Brazil and Volta Redonda -- steel, 41 -- steel, 71 -- Chaebol -- 133 -- 211 -- 217 -- Hyundai Heavy Industry, 140 -- business elite, 66-7 -- business elite, 139 -- contribution to South Korean economy, 136-7 -- Daewoo, as biggest bankruptcy in world history, 145 -- Daewoo, as biggest bankruptcy in world history, 214 -- democratization and scrutiny of, 141 -- Hyundai, 147 -- impact of Asian crisis, on expansion plans -- impact of Asian crisis, on expansion plans -- impact of Asian crisis, 81-2 -- impact of Asian crisis, 81-2 -- impact of Asian crisis, 144 -- impact of Asian crisis, 144 -- in EPZs, 62 -- Lucky Goldstar, 144 -- Samsung, 137 -- Sunkyong, 137 -- Chile copper mining -- 173-4 -- and accidents in industry, 179-80 -- export crisis, 176 -- exports, 174 -- exports, 176 -- monopsony, 176 -- monopsony, 177 -- monopsony, 251 -- production, 241 -- technological innovations, 175 -- to South Wales, 173 -- to South Wales, 177 -- China -- and Mao Zedong, 157 -- and policy change, 160 -- and policy change, 166 -- and WTO, 164-5 -- Chinese Communist Party [CCP] and industrialization 157 -- Long March, 157-8 -- other type of enterprises, 240.
Cultural Revolution, 159 -- Deng XiaoPing 160-1 -- employment in Laogai, state-owned enterprises -- employment in Laogai, 159 -- employment in Laogai, 162-3 -- employment in Laogai, 165-6 -- exports, (of silk) -- exports, 167 -- exports, 202 -- FDI, 160 -- FDI, 164 -- Great Leap Forward, and biggest man-made famine -- Great Leap Forward, 158-9 -- Great Leap Forward, 159 -- growth centres, Guangdong, Shanghai -- growth centres, Guangdong, 161 -- growth centres, Guangdong, 162 -- industrial accidents, 162 -- MFN status, 144 -- MFN status, 164 -- MFN status, 202 -- relations with USA, 158 -- relations with USA, 159 -- relations with USA, 164 -- Christian reaction 219 -- Christian world view 14 -- Christianity 18 -- Cliff, Tony 249 -- Clinton, Bill -- and 'Clinton doctrine', 212 -- and FLA, 194 -- CODELCO [Corporacion del Cobre, Chile] 179 -- colonial rule 30-1 -- commodity production -- 11 -- and colonialism, 30 -- commodity trade -- cotton, 44 -- cotton, 95-6 -- and prices, and 'buffer stocks' -- and prices, 41 -- and prices, 47 -- and prices, 50 -- and prices, 89 -- and prices, 91 -- and prices, 171 -- coffee, 68 -- coffee, 75 -- coffee, 89 -- coffee, 93 -- live animals, 89 -- mining, 33 -- mining, 75 -- palm oil, 30 -- palm oil, 34 -- palm oil, 89 -- tobacco, 75 -- African commodity dependence, 50 -- African commodity dependence, 88-9 -- African commodity dependence, 89 -- African commodity dependence, 91 -- African commodity dependence, 234 -- beef, 68 -- peanuts, 50-2 -- tropical commodities, bananas -- tropical commodities, 30 -- tropical commodities, 33 -- tropical commodities, 230 -- communism, collapse of -- 212 -- 213 -- and impact on CPC, 161 -- communist, 131-2 -- comparative advantage -- 3 -- 29 -- 66 -- 135 -- 160 -- 162 -- and dynamic advantage, 137-8.
natural endowment, 68 -- damaged by MFA, 201 -- copper -- impact of Asian crisis, 81 -- main world producers and consumers, 89 -- main world producers and consumers, 89 -- main world producers and consumers, 173 -- main world producers and consumers, 173 -- main world producers and consumers, 240 -- main world producers and consumers, 240 -- crony capitalism -- 84 -- 214 -- 216 -- in Philippines, 84 -- cruise liner 189-91 -- Cyprus -- 'economic miracle', 117 -- 'economic miracle', 118 -- economy and transformation, 115 -- and World Bank, 116 -- clothing industry, 117-18 -- employment policy and refugees, 118-19 -- enterprise survival strategies, and London Cypriot Manufactu -- enterprise survival strategies, 91 -- enterprise survival strategies, 120 -- enterprise survival strategies, 120-1 -- enterprise survival strategies, 122 -- exports, 119 -- Libya crisis 119-20 -- Libya crisis 236 -- network of subcontracting, 122-4 -- network of subcontracting, 122-4 -- network of subcontracting, 245 -- network of subcontracting, 245 -- debt crisis -- 45 -- near default and IMF 'rescue', 152 -- petrol dollars 47 -- and Africa, 50 -- and capital flight, 48 -- and Mexico [ 48 -- and Mexico [ 151 -- deregulation of financial markets, interest rate rises, 47 -- development -- and meanings -- 1 -- 7 -- 78 -- 201 -- 214-18 -- and cruelty of development, 218 -- of children, 215 -- employment question, 41-2 -- employment question, 192-3 -- employment question, 214-15 -- human condition, 59 -- human condition, 209 -- human condition, 213 -- human condition, 214 -- imposition of 'humanitarian' aid, 212 -- indicators, HDI, 3 -- indicators, HDI, 115 -- MVA, 193 -- role of state in development, 209 -- role of state in development, 216-17 -- uneven and combined development, 213-14 -- ECGS [Export Credit Guarantee Scheme].
Cyprus, 118.
Summary: A comprehensive introductory guide for students, teachers, volunteers and NGO workers in development, World Development examines the issues surrounding development, industrialisation and globalisation.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Examples -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Summary of Contents -- Introduction -- Aim of the Book -- SECTION I: World Development: Globalisation in Historical Perspective -- Introduction -- 1.1 The Expansion of Europe: Mercantile Trade 1500-1750 -- 1.2 Industrial Capitalism and 'Free Trade' 1750-1875 -- 1.3 Imperial Trade and Imperial Rivalries 1875-1945 -- 1.4 Superpower Competition and the Long Boom 1945 70 -- 1.5Debt, Crisis and the Third World 1970 90s -- 1.6 Globalisation in the Millennium -- SECTION 2: Globalisation: Industrialisation and Trade -- Introduction -- 2.1 The Latin American NICs: Import Substituting Industrialisation ( ISI) -- 2.2 The East Asian NICs: Export Orientated Industrialisation ( EOI) -- 2.3 Competing Perspectives on Trade Policy -- 2.4 People Trade: Globalisation and Immigrant Enterprise -- SECTION 3: Country Studies -- Introduction -- 3.1 Cyprus: Industrialisation Under Conditions of Globalisation -- 3.2 Spain: Economic Development Under Conditions of Autarky -- 3.3 South Korea: Free Market Miracle or Mirage? -- 3.4 Mexico: The Long March of Industrialisation -- 3.5 China: Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl -- SECTION 4: Commodity Studies -- Introduction -- 4.1 Copper: Chilean Miners - British Smelters in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 4.2 Tourism: The Spanish Tourist Industry -- 4.3 The Global Textile Industry: An Engendered Protectionism -- Conclusions -- Development and its Discontents -- Appendix 1. Of Noble Savages and Lazy Natives -- Appendix 2. The Third World: An Activity -- Tables -- Figures -- Notes -- SECTION 2.1 -- SECTION 2.2 -- SECTION 2.3 -- SECTION 2.4 -- SECTION 3.1 -- SECTION 3.2 -- SECTION 3.3 -- SECTION 3.4 -- SECTION 3.5 -- SECTION 4.1 -- SECTION 4.2 -- SECTION 4.3 -- CONCLUSIONS -- References -- Further Reading.

Glossary -- Notes on Authors -- Index -- Africa -- 16 -- 28 -- 132 -- 'lazy native' 220-2: 'lazy native' 223 -- per capita incomes, 91 -- colonialism, and 'winds of change', 38 -- declining GDP, 89 -- failure of SAPs, 91 -- loses in trade talks, 95 -- loses in trade talks, 235 -- Agriculture -- diminishing returns to, 41 -- protectionism and CAP [Common Agricultural Policy], 46-7 -- subsistence production, 22 -- Arab countries 212 -- Arab merchants -- 14 -- 16 -- Argentina -- 68-9 -- crisis of ISI, 74 -- Asian crisis -- South Korea and largest 'rescue' in history, 142-3 -- South Korea and largest 'rescue' in history, 145 -- Thailand, 80 -- world growth rates, 81 -- Australia, California, UK, 81 -- chronology, Thailand -- chronology, 'domino effect' -- chronology, 80 -- chronology, 80 -- chronology, 86 -- financial markets, 85 -- financial markets, 214 -- IMF 'rescue' packages, 78 -- impact on immigrant workers, 82-3 -- impact on Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, 79-81 -- impact on Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, 141-2 -- Indonesia, 80-1 -- Indonesia, 87 -- Indonesia, 248 -- role of short-term lending, 80-1 -- role of short-term lending, 142 -- role of short-term lending, 234 -- stabilisation and role of China, 164 -- Association] 37 -- Ayia Napa 123 -- Balkans -- 212 -- 213 -- Bangladesh -- and garment industry -- and London immigrants -- 2 -- 102 -- 133 -- 144 -- 193 -- 194 -- 197 -- 228 -- Barshefsky, Charlene, US Trade Secretary 216 -- Biggles, that boy 221-2 -- Blair, Tony 78 -- Boserup, Ester, women and marginalisation in industrialisation 198 -- Brazil, crisis of King Coffee -- 'exhaustion' and crisis, 73-5 -- 'triple alliance', 66 -- 'triple alliance', 73-4 -- 'triple alliance', 233 -- Import Substitution, 'forced' 'golden period' -- Import Substitution, 'forced' 70.

Import Substitution, 'forced' 72-3 -- Petrobras, 66 -- populism and nationalism, 70-2 -- role of external borrowing, and Grande Carajas Programme -- role of external borrowing, and Grande Carajas Programme -- role of external borrowing, 74-5 -- role of external borrowing, 74-5 -- role of external borrowing, 247 -- role of external borrowing, 247 -- Bretton Woods institutions -- origins and purpose collapse -- origins and purpose 35-6 -- origins and purpose 45-6 -- Bukharin, Nikolai -- 31 -- 210 -- Bulgaria 107 -- capital-intensive industries -- and technology -- 138 -- 149 -- ship-building, 137 -- South Korea and Pohang Steel Mill, 137-8 -- steel, Brazil and Volta Redonda -- steel, 41 -- steel, 71 -- Chaebol -- 133 -- 211 -- 217 -- Hyundai Heavy Industry, 140 -- business elite, 66-7 -- business elite, 139 -- contribution to South Korean economy, 136-7 -- Daewoo, as biggest bankruptcy in world history, 145 -- Daewoo, as biggest bankruptcy in world history, 214 -- democratization and scrutiny of, 141 -- Hyundai, 147 -- impact of Asian crisis, on expansion plans -- impact of Asian crisis, on expansion plans -- impact of Asian crisis, 81-2 -- impact of Asian crisis, 81-2 -- impact of Asian crisis, 144 -- impact of Asian crisis, 144 -- in EPZs, 62 -- Lucky Goldstar, 144 -- Samsung, 137 -- Sunkyong, 137 -- Chile copper mining -- 173-4 -- and accidents in industry, 179-80 -- export crisis, 176 -- exports, 174 -- exports, 176 -- monopsony, 176 -- monopsony, 177 -- monopsony, 251 -- production, 241 -- technological innovations, 175 -- to South Wales, 173 -- to South Wales, 177 -- China -- and Mao Zedong, 157 -- and policy change, 160 -- and policy change, 166 -- and WTO, 164-5 -- Chinese Communist Party [CCP] and industrialization 157 -- Long March, 157-8 -- other type of enterprises, 240.

Cultural Revolution, 159 -- Deng XiaoPing 160-1 -- employment in Laogai, state-owned enterprises -- employment in Laogai, 159 -- employment in Laogai, 162-3 -- employment in Laogai, 165-6 -- exports, (of silk) -- exports, 167 -- exports, 202 -- FDI, 160 -- FDI, 164 -- Great Leap Forward, and biggest man-made famine -- Great Leap Forward, 158-9 -- Great Leap Forward, 159 -- growth centres, Guangdong, Shanghai -- growth centres, Guangdong, 161 -- growth centres, Guangdong, 162 -- industrial accidents, 162 -- MFN status, 144 -- MFN status, 164 -- MFN status, 202 -- relations with USA, 158 -- relations with USA, 159 -- relations with USA, 164 -- Christian reaction 219 -- Christian world view 14 -- Christianity 18 -- Cliff, Tony 249 -- Clinton, Bill -- and 'Clinton doctrine', 212 -- and FLA, 194 -- CODELCO [Corporacion del Cobre, Chile] 179 -- colonial rule 30-1 -- commodity production -- 11 -- and colonialism, 30 -- commodity trade -- cotton, 44 -- cotton, 95-6 -- and prices, and 'buffer stocks' -- and prices, 41 -- and prices, 47 -- and prices, 50 -- and prices, 89 -- and prices, 91 -- and prices, 171 -- coffee, 68 -- coffee, 75 -- coffee, 89 -- coffee, 93 -- live animals, 89 -- mining, 33 -- mining, 75 -- palm oil, 30 -- palm oil, 34 -- palm oil, 89 -- tobacco, 75 -- African commodity dependence, 50 -- African commodity dependence, 88-9 -- African commodity dependence, 89 -- African commodity dependence, 91 -- African commodity dependence, 234 -- beef, 68 -- peanuts, 50-2 -- tropical commodities, bananas -- tropical commodities, 30 -- tropical commodities, 33 -- tropical commodities, 230 -- communism, collapse of -- 212 -- 213 -- and impact on CPC, 161 -- communist, 131-2 -- comparative advantage -- 3 -- 29 -- 66 -- 135 -- 160 -- 162 -- and dynamic advantage, 137-8.

natural endowment, 68 -- damaged by MFA, 201 -- copper -- impact of Asian crisis, 81 -- main world producers and consumers, 89 -- main world producers and consumers, 89 -- main world producers and consumers, 173 -- main world producers and consumers, 173 -- main world producers and consumers, 240 -- main world producers and consumers, 240 -- crony capitalism -- 84 -- 214 -- 216 -- in Philippines, 84 -- cruise liner 189-91 -- Cyprus -- 'economic miracle', 117 -- 'economic miracle', 118 -- economy and transformation, 115 -- and World Bank, 116 -- clothing industry, 117-18 -- employment policy and refugees, 118-19 -- enterprise survival strategies, and London Cypriot Manufactu -- enterprise survival strategies, 91 -- enterprise survival strategies, 120 -- enterprise survival strategies, 120-1 -- enterprise survival strategies, 122 -- exports, 119 -- Libya crisis 119-20 -- Libya crisis 236 -- network of subcontracting, 122-4 -- network of subcontracting, 122-4 -- network of subcontracting, 245 -- network of subcontracting, 245 -- debt crisis -- 45 -- near default and IMF 'rescue', 152 -- petrol dollars 47 -- and Africa, 50 -- and capital flight, 48 -- and Mexico [ 48 -- and Mexico [ 151 -- deregulation of financial markets, interest rate rises, 47 -- development -- and meanings -- 1 -- 7 -- 78 -- 201 -- 214-18 -- and cruelty of development, 218 -- of children, 215 -- employment question, 41-2 -- employment question, 192-3 -- employment question, 214-15 -- human condition, 59 -- human condition, 209 -- human condition, 213 -- human condition, 214 -- imposition of 'humanitarian' aid, 212 -- indicators, HDI, 3 -- indicators, HDI, 115 -- MVA, 193 -- role of state in development, 209 -- role of state in development, 216-17 -- uneven and combined development, 213-14 -- ECGS [Export Credit Guarantee Scheme].

Cyprus, 118.

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