Iran: Dependency and Industrialisation

Urbanisation, Industrialisation and Sustainable Development

This paper describes two important transformations of the past century: industrialisation and urbanisation. These transformations will continue in the new century and create policy challenges because the use of land, materials and energy will increasingly meet natural limits or be constrained by intergenerational equity arguments. New local and international institutional arrangements will be n...

Information , Coordination , and the Industrialisation of Countries ∗

The industrialisation process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate firms’ investment decisions. Using the Global Games approach we can solve this coordination problem and eliminate the problem of multiple equilibria. We show how appropriate information provision enhances efficiency. We argue that subsidies may be a property of a signalling equilibrium to overcome credibility...

Stalinist Industrialisation and the Test of War*

The Dynamics of Technological Learning in Industrialisation

9 Biographical Note 10 INTRODUCTION 11 ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK 13 DYNAMICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL LEARNING: A CASE 17 Duplicative Imitation Stage 17 Creative Imitation Stage 20 Innovation Stage 23 IMPLICATIONS FOR OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 27 REFERENCES 31 THE UNU/INTECH DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES 33

Health and Vulnerable Men. Sweden: From Traditional Farming to Industrialisation

n every society, there are different kinds of resources for good health. For instance, social capital matters – formed in networks by members of the local community and supported by concerned public and private institutions. Finding ways to understand these processes, which are the most vulnerable groups and why it happens is a major theme for the following narrative. An analysis of the relatio...