The "Routledge Handbook of Industry and Development "is a global overview of industrialisation. Each chapter will provide readers with contemporary insights into this this essential aspect of economic development.

Industrialisation has been at the forefront of discussion on economic development since the earliest days of development economics. But over the last fifty years, the manufacturing sectors of different countries and regions have grown at strikingly different rates. In 1960 developing countries took a very small share of global manufacturing production. Today the position had...