The Hard Road to Autocentric Development in a Globalized World: A New Measurement Proposal
Globalization has allowed the expansion of technical progress from the core to the periphery, mainly through the export of technological inputs and the direct investment process, which has led to noticeable productivity gains and higher economic growth rates in many developing countries. However, th...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2026 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:2445/226999 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/226999 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Globalització (Economia) Països en vies de desenvolupament Anàlisi econòmica Inversions Globalization (Economics) Developing countries Economic analysis Investments |
| Sumario: | Globalization has allowed the expansion of technical progress from the core to the periphery, mainly through the export of technological inputs and the direct investment process, which has led to noticeable productivity gains and higher economic growth rates in many developing countries. However, these countries’ capacity to retain such productivity gains and distribute them to the rest of the economy has been limited by their ability to generate sectoral linkages and strengthen their domestic market. Based on Amin’s concept of <em>articulation</em>, this article aims to identify different patterns of accumulation among a sample of 88 countries. An Autocentric Development Index (ADI) is constructed to classify the sample countries into four groups, according to their level of autocentric development (high, high-middle, low-middle, and low) and to evaluate their capacity to transform economic dynamism into higher levels of socioeconomic development. The results of the analysis confirm the difficulties semi-peripheral countries have to converge with core countries, thereby consolidating the hegemonic position of the latter within the world system. |
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