Introduction

Emma C. Murphy
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Emma C. Murphy: University of Durham

A chapter in Economic and Political change in Tunisia, 1999, pp 1-11 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The struggle to achieve economic development has been a defining preoccupation of the non-industrialized world since 1945. In the postcolonial era, newly independent states initially sought economic independence as a way of consolidating their new political status, most often resorting to import substitution industrialization (ISI) strategies. At the end of the twentieth century, however, the realities of the world capitalist system and the demise of the socialist alternative have left them struggling to come to terms with the idea that development strategies must allow for economic interdependence rather than independence. Thus they have bowed to a new wisdom which cites the success of the export oriented industrialization (EOI) strategies of the East Asian Tigers as the model for the future.

Keywords: Civil Society; Economic Reform; Political Reform; Economic Liberalization; Economic Restructuring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333983584_1

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