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Export oriented industrialization strategies

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Disappointment about the results of import substituting industrialization strategies as well as the spectacular performance of a few newly industrialised countries have led many developing countries to switch in the 1970s to export oriented industrialization. This analysis cautions against any misplaced euphoria with regard to this strategy in a neo-mercantilistic and hegemonic world.

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  1. University of Queensland, Brisbane

    neil Dias Karunaratne

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Karunaratne, n.D. Export oriented industrialization strategies. Intereconomics 15, 217–223 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02924575

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