Abstract
This minor dissertation is an empirical enquiry into the structural dynamics of de-industrialisation at a manufacturing sub-sectoral level. Our aim with this work is to identify uniform patterns of manufacturing sub-sectoral development or empirical regularities that characterise the process of industrial development and de-industrialisation across countries and over time. As a conceptual framework, this study adopts the inverted-U curve by Rowthorn (1994), which makes the prediction that the industrialisation and de-industrialisation trajectory of a country follows an inverted-U pattern over the course of development. However, bearing in mind the structural diversity of manufacturing sub-sectors, as emphasised within the Structuralist and Neo-Schumpeterian literature, the first hypothesis we propose points to diversities in the development patterns of the manufacturing sub-sectors over the course of development...
M.Phil. (Industrial Policy)