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“A large-scale global shift in manufacturing is the outcome of deindustrialization in the developed world matched by industrialization in the developing world.” Analyse this statement.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Economic Geography

"Global shift", the term popularised by Peter Dicken (1986), describes the relocation of manufacturing capacity away from the old industrial cores of North America, Western Europe and Japan towards selected parts of the developing world.

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