Industrialisation in a Unified Development Strategy

Abstract

The article surveys the role of industrialisation in developing countries in the light of certain objectives (efficient growth, reduced inequality, diversified jobs, integrated development) and certain constraints (environmental damage, scarcity of trainees, protectionist policies by industrialised countries). It is argued that the basic objective of development (poverty eradication) provides a key to the solution of a number of related problems: urbanisation, protection of the environment, equality, a better international division of labour. This approach throws a new light on the demand for sources of energy and for sophisticated products, the transfer of inappropriate technologies, the role of the multinational enterprise, the relation between rural development and industrialisation and the relation of domination and dependence. These are examined in turn and an agenda for UNIDO for the late seventies and eighties is drawn up.