South African manufacturing industries - Catching up or falling behind?

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 715-733

  Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik ^a,b  

^a CHR MICHELSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; MANUFACTURING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TRADE RELATIONS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0030460640     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220389608422437     Document Type: Article

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