Exam 10: Industrialization: the Path to Progress

In the former Soviet Union, major industrial investment was always directed by the central government. Yet, there was as much spatial concentration of specialized industry there as elsewhere in the world. Apart from tapping local natural resources, this was due primarily to:

Technological innovation can be a double-edged sword in the development of manufacturing because:

Manufacturing industry has long been seen as the "key" to economic growth. Its spread from the core to poorer countries since the 1970s has been due to what primarily?

Which "stages" of production are most likely to "move" from core to periphery locations:

Much of the growth of manufacturing output in China since the 1990s has been concentrated: