Light Manufacturing in Tanzania argues that for Tanzania to remain one of the fastest growing economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, it has to make progress in the structural transformation that can lift workers from low-productivity agriculture and the informal sector to higher productivity...

In Breaking into the Monopoly, Yukihisa Kumagai examines how the commercial pressure groups of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester organised campaigns to end the British East India Company's monopoly from 1812-1813 and 1829-1833.

Covering issues as pertinent today as when the book was first published, The Logic of Industrial Organization discusses key themes in industrial relations, manufacturing, employment and investment and education for business administration. The book contains chapters on the following: The...

Pakistan's development efforts are guided by its 2011 Framework for Economic Growth, which identifies actions needed to create a prosperous, industrialized Pakistan through rapid and sustainable development. Industrialization has the potential to drive Pakistan's economic growth and contribute...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. INDIA CIRCA 1980 -- III. HOW HAS INDIA CHANGED SINCE THE EARLY 1980S? -- IV. THE STATES' STORY -- V. UNDERSTANDING POST-1980 PERFORMANCE -- VI. LOOKING AHEAD -- Appendix: Data Sources and Description -- REFERENCES.

The world's environmental future will be determined in significant part by what happens in the rapidly industrializing and urban economies of Asia. This work examines the prospects for and pathways to the shaping of a development future that is far less energy-, materials- and waste-intensive.