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Maritime trade, immigration and industrialization have resulted in the production of rich cultural narratives that port cities have long embodied as centers of industrial activities. Unfortunately, a large number of these locations, many of which date back to important social and economic turning points in the histories of various parts of the world remain neglected leading to dilapidation. In fact, this is particularly the situation in India. In this context, this research examines the industrial heritage Kuttichira, where the earliest recorded trade settlement in Calicut city in Kerala, India still remains albeit in a poor state. This research employs multiple research techniques to gather data. It first examines secondary literature. It then examines a case study within which a site visit and direct observations were conducted to observe the present condition of the heritage. An interview with an expert and interactions with a few local residents have also been carried out in order to understand the industrial heritage. Maps and drawings were created using the data gathered. The paper identifies the potentials of this industrial heritage to provide a sense of history and identity to the place. It concludes that heritage should be utilized for restoring the intangible heritage of the area, thus connecting the area with the current growth of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the reconsideration of Adam Smith's economic theories in the face of modern economic challenges and critiques of free-market doctrines. Topics include the role of industrial strategy in national economic success, the contrast between Smith's laissez-faire theories and Alexander Hamilton's advocacy for state-sponsored industrial development, and the examination of Smith's views on agriculture, wealth creation, and the moral implications of economic pursuits.

Special economic zones (SEZs) can be described as "carved out jurisdictions within the overall jurisdiction of a state in order to introduce different laws and regulations that are usually more trade and investment friendly". South Africa's SEZs are created under the Special Economic Zones Act 16 of 2014. This article analyses the country's legal framework for SEZs, which legal scholars have thus far only examined from a purely economic perspective. It provides a brief historical overview of industrial development zones, examines the 2014 act and suggests some reforms within the SEZ legislative framework. A comparative analysis is provided by drawing some lessons from BRICS member countries that have a successful record in operationalizing SEZs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doctor of Geography, Professor Irina Alexandrovna Rodionova - recognized specialist in the field of industrial geography. For more than a quarter of a century she gave to work at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and about the same number - work at the Peoples Friendship University of Russia. Her life is full of events and meetings with interesting people. There were also difficulties. It was especially hard for scientific and pedagogical workers in the 1990s, when their work was poorly funded. Specialists did not remain in science, but Irina Alexandrova did not leave it. In the 1990-2000s, many students knew I.A. Rodionova from textbooks. Using them, they entered universities in geographical and economic specialties. 2021 was also a difficult year, when distance learning was introduced. Conferences were also held remotely. Irina Alexandrovna coped with these problems, successfully working both in the teaching and in the scientific field. She generously shares her knowledge and experience with colleagues and students and is the developer of a number of disciplines taught at universities. Under her leadership, 10 dissertations were successfully defended. I.A. Rodionova is the author of more than 400 publications, many of which she published in co-authorship with colleagues and students. She took part and created many textbooks for universities on the geography of industry, economic geography, and is one of the authors of the atlas for the school textbook on geography of grades 10-11. This article - a small fraction of gratitude from colleagues and students in honor of the anniversary of I.A. Rodionova.

The main objective of this study is to explore how the Istisna' contract is used as a financing tool for industrial clusters, and how Istisna' contracts are being used to overcome their problems to increase their effectiveness in the national economy. The study used the descriptive analytical approach to review the scientific literature of industrial clusters and the jurisprudential references to describe the Istisna' contract and identify its role as a financing tool. As a conclusion, it was being found that Istisna' contract is a flexible and effective financing tool that could be employed in financing and developing industrial clusters. Also it was recommended that, Islamic Banks adopt financing all components of the industrial clusters through Istisna contract. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines how Christmas relates to issues of management and organizational analysis. Particular attention is given to the novella "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens as the author looks at how the story points to the societal role of Christmas in relation to the impact of industrialization as well as social and economic issues.

This article evaluates the relevance of dependency theory for understanding contemporary development challenges, especially in the light of changes in the global economy over the past 50 years. In order to do so, the article rectifies previous misunderstandings of the scholarship and offers a new definition of dependency theory as a research programme, rather than a singular theory. Four core tenets of this research programme are identified: a global historical approach; theorizing of the polarizing tendencies of global capitalism; a focus on structures of production; and a focus on the specific constraints faced by peripheral economies. While each of these elements can be found in many contemporary theories, what makes dependency theory unique — and a particularly strong research programme — is the combination of these elements. The article demonstrates how this approach provides a deep and broad understanding that is necessary to appreciate the persistence of uneven development with reference to two case studies, namely successful industrialization in South Korea, and how the fragmentation of global value chains has impacted industrialization in Indonesia. Finally, the article argues that approaching these kinds of cases through a dependency research programme can contribute to a fruitful renewal of development studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a genealogy of Hannah Arendt's treatment of political economy in the years prior to the publication of The Human Condition (1958). In the early 1950s her archival papers and diary entries display deep concern for a host of topics at the intersection of political and economic thought: labor, work, slavery, consumption, industrialization, and automation. Such interests, which were passed through the philosophical canon from Aristotle to Marx, would serve as the theoretical basis for many of the distinctions that define The Human Condition. When set within the context of midcentury debates around political economy, it becomes clear that Arendt conceived the distinctions not only to respond to the aporias of Western philosophy but also to contest contemporaries who put stock in dialectical materialist accounts of political emancipation. Understanding Arendt's adversaries more clearly provides the chance to see her conceptual distinctions as interventions into concurrent attempts to reviseMarxian political economy in the latter half of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to explore Istisna'a as a tool of monetary policy (MP) and examines its effectiveness in achieving full employment income and price stability. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses Istisna'a as a tool of MP and examines its effects on key macroeconomic variables on purely theoretical ground. The effectiveness and the impact of Istisna'a-based MP is examined by using aggregate output and aggregate expenditure model, embedded with Islamic economic principles, including zakat function. Findings: Istisna'a-based MP immediately creates well paid jobs, positively contributes and expands the size of the manufacturing sector, increases capital per person employed, labor productivity and thus increases output, employment and promotes industrialization. Increase in the size of manufacturing sector will not only increase manufactured value-added exports but also cut high valued manufactured imports and thus increases positive trade balance and eventually reduces trade deficits. Increase in labor productivity will improve the standard of living, and eventually the economy will yield sustainable high growth rates, full employment and prosperity. Originality/value: This is probably one of the first attempt to systematically develop the Istisna'a-based MP with detailed MP transmission mechanism. This new contribution in the field of Islamic MP will unveil the horizon of sustainable economic growth, creation of well paid jobs, expansion of manufacturing sector, rapid industrialization and the increase in capital per person employed across the economy, and eventually Istisna'a-based MP will be one of the most effective tool of MP for transforming an economy into a relatively higher and sophisticated stages which will eventually promote sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first criticisms about the idea of liberal economics were seen in the newspapers of the period in 1870 and it was stated that the country should be industrialized. In the 1880s, the country's industrialization and increasing the customs rates to protect its industry were strongly expressed in the press. Ahmet Mithat Efendi, who systematically expressed the idea of patronage in the country for the first time. Ahmet Mithat stated that the industrialization of the country would not take place with the application of liberal economic thought and that this idea would only be applied to developed countries. For this reason, he advocated the protection of the Ottoman industry. In 1880, Ahmet Mithat initiated the dönem Interpretation of Truth politik and the periodical periodicals of industrialization policies were supported. These newspapers emphasized the importance of industrialization for the country's economic development and demanded that the state implement protective measures for the development of industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with an immensely important and topical issue related to the implementation of sustainable development policies at the regional level. It focuses on assessing the level of sustainability in building stable infrastructure, promoting sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation between 2015 and 2021 at the regional level in Poland. The areas included in the assessment relate to Goal 9 of the UN Agenda 2030 adopted by member states. The basis for the assessment was a developed research methodology based on a selected set of 19 indicators characterizing the development of innovation, industrialization and infrastructure at the regional level. The research covered 16 regions (provinces) in Poland from 2015 to 2021. In addition to determining the dynamics of change of individual indicators, characterizing the rate of change of the sustainable economy in these 16 regions, their ranking was created, reflecting the status of implementation of Goal 9 of the Agenda. The ranking was made using the developed new approach to analyzing a multi-criteria problem based on the MCDM methodology. The CODAS and CoCoSo methods and the Laplace criterion were used to determine the final value of the index for assessing the level of sustainable development of regions. Meanwhile, the values of the indicator weights were determined based on the Shannon Entropy and CRITIC methods and the aforementioned criterion. The determined index values formed the basis for making a ranking of the studied regions and assessing their level of development. The result of this process was their division into four classes differing in the level of achievement of Goal 9 of the Agenda. With the use of non-parametric tests (Kendall's Rank and Spearman Rank), an evaluation was carried out of the relationship between the values of the determined index and selected economic and social parameters characterizing the studied regions between 2015 and 2021. The results show that Poland is highly differentiated both temporally and spatially at the regional level. Throughout the entire analyzed period, the high level of development in the assessed scope was reported for the Masovia, Lower Silesia and Pomerania provinces, and the low level – for the Holy Cross Province. The results also confirm the relationship between a high degree of innovation, industrialization and stable infrastructure and economic development and living standards. The results show regions that need a decision on their nature and the role they are to play in the national and European economy. • Regional Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 9 in Poland was assessed; • A new integrated approach was used for the assessment; • In Poland occur the great diversity of the regions in terms of SDG9; • SDG9 index has a strong relationship with economic and social parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental change and unexpected crises are major threats to industrial development. Industries must build technological resilience to reduce the impact of shocks. Resilience has become a crucial concept for addressing vulnerabilities and developing flexible methods of adapting to crises. This study examined the concept of technological resilience, particularly at the industry level, as well as the factors that may influence technological resilience. Moreover, the relative capability of industries to maintain their production of technological knowledge during disruptive events was examined by analyzing the growth and crises of patenting. This methodology yielded novel insights into technological resilience with multidimensional perspectives. Collaboration reinforces technological resilience by reducing crisis probability and intensity. In addition, high-quality and diversified technological knowledge enhances technological resilience by reducing the probability, intensity, or duration of crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Carbon sequestration through capture and storage in subsurface porous geologic formations is one potential method for mitigating the problem of climate change due to emission of anthropogenic CO2. In fact, in a world highly dependent on energy derived from hydrocarbons and coal, carbon capture and storage may represent the most promising approach to maintaining industrial development in the present period, while implementing other solutions that will deliver sustainable reductions in CO2 emissions in the long run. Some countries have initiated pilot and large-scale projects to develop and improve carbon capture and storage technology, while others are slow to follow. What explains this variation? We develop a theory of the political economy of technology adoption to explore conditions under which countries are more likely to implement carbon capture and storage projects. We find that the likelihood of such projects depends on governments' policy positions and industries' research and development capacity. Data analysis of carbon capture and storage projects provides evidence in support of our theoretical expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a survey spanning over half a century of his own work, Hirschman, among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century on political economy, celebrates the ability to undermine one's own claims and theories. Whereas skepticism toward other people's work is not noteworthy, Hirschman argues, selfcritque is crucial in relation "to one's own generalizations or constructs." But self-criticism and interpretive changes do "not in the end cancel out or refute the earlier findings"; rather, they help to define domains of the social world where originally postulated relations do not hold. Exercises in "self-subversion," while often experienced at first as traumatic, are eventually, as Hirschman's own career attests, "rewarding and enriching." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In view of the extensive growth of China's steel production in recent years, this paper analyzed the industrial development background and economic geography theory, and discussed the possible spatial interaction mechanism. Based on panel data of China's inter-provincial steel output from 2001 to 2015, using spatial econometric model, this paper also explored whether China's provincial steel production shows material orientation, market orientation and traffic orientation, and isolated spatial interactions of interprovincial steel output The results showed that the inter-provincial steel production in China did show both material orientation, market orientation and traffic orientation and that there was a significant negative spatial interaction, indicating that there might be strong competition and a crowing-out effect between neighboring provinces, and that the smaller the spatial scope, the more significant the spatial interactions of steel production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Make or buy? The question as to whether households should produce or purchase goods has been debated ever since industrialization diminished the significance of subsistence economies. The article interprets different modes of provision as moral economies that shaped markets and societies. The use of resources such as time, money, and materials reflected both moral and economic considerations, all of which were related to ideas about how skills, knowledge, and competences should be divided between genders, generations, and classes. The article draws on the example of West Germany during the postwar decades, a period in which economics and societal norms underwent profound transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the past few decades, developing countries have been pushed by international economic institutions and developed countries to effectively abandon promotion of industrialization and structural transformation as a key developmental agenda. In addition, the 'development' debate of recent decades has tended to focus solely on internal factors as if external economic forces are always benign. Within this context, this paper analyzes the key ideas of Gebrehiwot Baykedagn (GHB) (1886–1919), traces their lineages and considers their feasibility and relevance for current developing economies. In a nutshell, for GHB, the main keys to economic development are the creation, accumulation and use of knowledge and skill, technology, innovation and technical change and the means of economic development are deliberate, dynamic and comprehensive sets of state-directed, synergistic interventions that aim at moving an economy away from 'nature-intensive' economic activities towards knowledge-, skill-, technology- and innovation-based ones. Based on analysis of historical and theoretical evidence, this paper argues that the main ideas of GHB and his colleagues are still valid, feasible and relevant for today's developing economies as long as they are innovatively tailored to the unique context of each country and to the broader international policy context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Improved access to energy in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the potential to alleviate poverty, promote industrialisation, facilitate gender equality and reduce the region's vulnerability to climate change. Consequently, the current low rates of electrification in many SSA countries has been identified as the most pressing obstacle to economic growth, more important than access to finance, red tape or corruption. Despite the presence of numerous initiatives for promoting energy access in Africa, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calling for universal access to energy by 2030, Africa might still not be able to achieve universal energy access by 2030. Through an analysis of case studies, research articles, policy briefs and project reports this paper sought to investigate the policies, strategies and innovations that could help expedite SSA's progress towards universal energy access before 2030. This investigation revealed that an emphasis on rural electrification and linking energy access to agriculture and irrigation development as the case was in Viet Nam, could successfully diversify African economies and mitigate the negative perceptions about Africa's growth prospects and energy sectors that global economic shocks instigate. Additionally, the operations of Power Africa, the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Initiative and the China South-South Climate Cooperation Fund can either significantly improve the financing and regulatory frameworks for SSA's energy sectors or constrain economic development in SSA by promoting rent-seeking and corruption which culminates into a ‘climate finance curse’. Consequently, these initiatives can only facilitate inclusive growth as envisioned in the SDGs if SSA develops or strengthens institutions to coordinate and harmonise investments and aid from such autonomous diverse sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research study about the organizational culture as an independent variable, in which dimensions include (Values, Beliefs, Standards, Rituals, and Assumptions), has also focused on the sustainable development of the Industrial organizations as a dependent variable in all dimensions which include (Social dimension, Economic dimension, Environmental dimension, The human dimension and Technological dimension). The research has been based on the opinions of some managers of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals. The research problem has been identified by the researcher through the field of commensalism in Ministry of Industry and Minerals. The researcher has been found that the weak points in the sustainable development of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals came from the lack of knowledge of the organizational culture and its relation to the sustainable development at the Ministry of Industry and Minerals. The research has tried to pursue the following goals: describe the dimensions of administration organizational culture and the sustainable development of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals as well as the contribution of the organizational culture factors in the improvement of the sustainable development thinking and test the correlation between them in the Ministry of Industry and Minerals. The research has used the Descriptive Analytical Approach in order to achieve the goals above. In the practical part of the research survey, interviews and field commensalism has been conducted by the researcher while in the theoretical part previous studies and researches has been used as well as the Statistical Package for the Social Science program (SPSS) to test the correlation between the different research variables. The research found out from the test and analysis of the assumptions on which the study is based, show that The Ministry of Industry and Minerals sustainable development thinking could improve significantly if it follows the recommendation that is suggested in this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Overview of the theory and practice of national state-directed development. • Following the demise of state-directed development, the political economy of development has split into three disparate research agendas. • Historical-structural analysis can provide an integrated framework for studying national development. • Historical-structural analysis must be updated to include the decreased coherence of collective actors after neoliberal reform. • Historical-structural analysis must also be updated to include the increased institutionalization of the world economy. From the mid-1940s, strategies and policies of state-directed development empowered the state to transform a set of relationships among labor and domestic and international capital to reorder priorities of production and investment within national boundaries. Associated theories of national development, including dependency theory, made critical interventions in how we understood states, markets and the international economy in the context of late development. From the early 1980s, however, domestic reformers and international institutions dismantled state-directed development in response to profound shocks to the international economy of the previous decade, through processes of neoliberal reform in most developing countries. With the demise of state-directed development, convergent understandings of the political economy of national development were repudiated; there is no consensus on the meaning of national development today. Rather, three research agendas have arisen, 1) focusing on the provision of public and social goods to individuals and communities, 2) analyzing firm-level "upgrading" relationships both within and across borders, and 3) exploring the capacities of states to execute industrial policy or enhance their domestic governance. These three agendas highlight vital aspects of the dilemmas of development, but they do not provide an integrated perspective of the political economy of national development. This article proposes revisiting and updating Cardoso and Faletto's "historical-structural analysis," which can incorporate the interactions among domestic governments, firms and other economic actors, international agencies, multinationals and global structures and institutions. It updates this approach by exploring the ways in which neoliberal reform has disarticulated capital, labor and the state apparatus domestically, while incorporating institutional change to the structures of international trade and investment. Revised historical-structural analysis can thus represent a crucial framework for understanding the possibilities of particular national growth models, and the barriers to these trajectories from domestic and international sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]