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  2. Industrialisation - Wikipedia

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    The effect of industrialisation shown by rising income levels in the 19th century, including gross national product at purchasing power parity per capita between 1750 and 1900 in 1990 U.S. dollars for the First World, including Western Europe, United States, Canada and Japan, and Third World nations of Europe, Southern Asia, Africa, and Latin America [1] The effect of industrialisation is also ...

  3. Dual-sector model - Wikipedia

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    The "Dual Sector Model" is a theory of development in which surplus labor from traditional agricultural sector is transferred to the modern industrial sector whose growth over time absorbs the surplus labor, promotes industrialization and stimulates sustained development.

  4. Industrial sociology - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of Industry 4.0, showing the four "industrial revolutions" with a brief English description. Industrial sociology, until recently a crucial research area within the field of sociology of work, examines "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations" to "the extent to ...

  5. Ragnar Nurkse's balanced growth theory - Wikipedia

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    "The life and time of Ragnar Nurkse" (PDF). Conference on "Ragnar Nurkse (1907–2007): Classical Development Economics and Its Relevance for Today" ,Tallinn, 31 August – 1 September 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2012 "Ragnar Nurkse's Development Theory" (PDF). Bremen University of Applied Sciences.

  6. Rostow's stages of growth - Wikipedia

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    Rostow's model is descendent from the liberal school of economics, emphasizing the efficacy of modern concepts of free trade and the ideas of Adam Smith.It also denies Friedrich List’s argument that countries reliant on exporting raw materials may get “locked in”, and be unable to diversify, in that Rostow's model states that countries may need to depend on a few raw material exports to ...

  7. Three-sector model - Wikipedia

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    Three sectors according to Fourastié Clark's sector model This figure illustrates the percentages of a country's economy made up by different sector. The figure illustrates that countries with higher levels of socio-economic development tend to have less of their economy made up of primary and secondary sectors and more emphasis in tertiary sectors.

  8. Import substitution industrialization - Wikipedia

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    Import substitution was heavily practiced during the mid-20th century as a form of developmental theory that advocated increased productivity and economic gains within a country. It was an inward-looking economic theory practiced by developing nations after World War II. Many economists then considered the ISI approach as a remedy to mass ...

  9. Industrial society - Wikipedia

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    Because of its association with non-Marxist modernization theory and American anticommunist organizations like the Congress for Cultural Freedom, [19] “industrial society” theory was often criticized by left-wing sociologists and Communists as a liberal ideology that aimed to justify the postwar status quo and undermine opposition to ...