This paper examines industrialization trends in developing countries. It uses the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic … countries for the period 1990-2018. Until the early 2000s de-industrialization was widespread, but then the trend reversed …. Regressions that control for income and demographic trends suggest significant employment industrialization in developing Asia and …

structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into … the "engine of growth." It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 2 of the paper reviews the role of Asia's developmental states in consciously …