Open AccessSome Observations on the Efficiency of Industrialization
Author(s) -
Marvin E. Rozen
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v9i4pp.357-379
Subject(s) - industrialisation , effi , process (computing) , industrial policy , economics , industrial organization , task (project management) , realization (probability) , economic system , business , international trade , market economy , computer science , management , statistics , mathematics , database , operating system
Increasingly manifest, in recent discussions of economicpolicy-making of less developed countries, has been a greater concernfor problems of industrial effi¬ciency [see, 1 ;2;3;4;5;6;10]. Thisawakening interest is stirred by the realization that the process ofindustrialization has all too often led to a high-cost industrialstructure, and a consequent inability to compete effectively in worldmarkets and against imports. Understandably, absorption of nationalenergies in the task of establishing an industrial structure hasfrequently meant that consideration of its qualitative performance wasnot given sufficient weight. Equally understandably, no one shouldexpect the creation, ab initio, of a smoothly functioning industrialsystem.