A model of perverse capitalist industrial development

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Title:	A model of perverse capitalist industrial development
Author:	Rweyemamu, J.F.
Year:	1972
Periodical:	Eastern Africa Economic Review
Volume:	4
Issue:	1
Pages:	21-40
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Subsaharan Africa Tanzania
Subject:	industrial development
Abstract:	The literature on the industrialization of the periphery has often only focused its attention on the features of the advanced countries' industrialization process. This implies a belief that the underdeveloped countries are historically similar to the advanced countries, except that the former fell behind in the process of historical development. However, their present condition is a consequence of the international division of labour that was embodied in the colonial system. Given the different origins of industrialization, two questions emerge: What can the underdeveloped countries learn from the industrialization process of the advanced countries in choosing both the pattern of industry and the appropriate primum mobile to that pattern? What industrial structure will emerge in the periphery? After a general discussion the last section of the paper is restricted to the African countries, especially to Tanzania. Ref.