"Industrialization as a strategy for overcoming underdevelopment: Lessons from Indonesia"
Indonesia's economic trajectory reveals a wide range of information of great value for designing strategies to overcome underdevelopment, both in terms of positive aspects to be considered, as well as opportunities that are not taken advantage of or wrong decisions. Given the large number of variables connected to an economic growth process, this work partially explores a specific set of them: export-oriented industrialization and its potential.
Under its unique set of individualities, Indonesia does not present itself as a great example of overcoming underdevelopment, presenting indicators lower than Brazil in several important socioeconomic variables. However, the country today has a future perspective of greater growth capabilities and higher projections in terms of product complexity, a contradiction that makes this case an important source of investigation.