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The Economics of Left Behind Regions: Technology, Industrialization, and Income Divergence book cover

1st Edition

The Economics of Left Behind Regions Technology, Industrialization, and Income Divergence

By Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Kaushalesh Lal, Shampa Paul Copyright 2027
232 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book addresses the urgent issue of nations being ‘left behind' in an era defined by AI, advanced manufacturing, and knowledge-intensive industries. Through incisive analysis, the book examines industrialization dynamics across Africa and Asia, using advanced econometric techniques like the ARIMA model to uncover the determinants of deindustrialization. Key chapters include comparative case... Read more

List of Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgement

List of Abbreviations

List of Appendices

 

Part I: Concept of “Left Behind”, Structural Transformation and

           Sources of Premature Deindustrialization

  1. A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Classifying Technological

  Catch-Up and Economic Development

  1. Industrialization Dynamics and Structural Transformation
  2. Silent Factories: Nature and Sources of Premature Deindustrialization

Part II: Productivity, Sector-concentration and Skill for Prosperity

  1. Catalyst of Progress: Productivity as the Engine of Industrialization
  2. Sectoral Evolution and Concentration in Low-Income Countries
  3. Skills for Prosperity: Educational Foundation of Sustainable Industrialization

Part III: Case Studies

  1. Manufacturing Marvel: Chinese Firms Leap into Global Innovation Leadership
  2. Progress and Industrialization: Paradoxical Case Studies of Largest Indian Manufacturing Firms
  3. Summary and Conclusions

Index

Biography

Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka is a Development Economist. He is former Senior Special Advisor to the President, AfDB. And also, was Director, Regional Office for Africa, UN-Habitat & Professor, United Nations University-MERIT. He pioneered industrial cluster and industrial innovation research in Africa and has written over twenty books and dozens of journal papers.

Kaushalesh Lal was Professor at UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands. He has widely published in peer reviewed journals and has several books published by international publishers to his credit. He is on the panel of reviewers of several international journals. His areas of research interest include Economics of Technical Change, ICT, Innovation, and Globalization of Enterprises.

Shampa Paul has published several research papers in international refereed journals. She was a first-place winner in the international paper competition organized by American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2007, USA. Her areas of interest include Information and Communication Technologies, Knowledge and Information Management, Higher education, Economic development and MSMEs among others. 

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