And the takeaway food has even been credited with promoting industrialisation and staving off revolution.
If Mr Tsvangirai wins, and is allowed to take office, Zimbabwe's rapid de-industrialisation could be halted.
Algeria has endured the classic problems of exaggerated industrialisation, ill-managed farm collectivisation, and rural depopulation.
In poor countries, demand for clean water is increasing rapidly, just as industrialisation is threatening supplies.
Once industrialisation is complete and better-educated citizens demand redistribution from their government, it declines again.
Having prospered first with coffee and then with industrialisation, it is now reinventing itself in the services sector.
The problems of putrid water and polluted air are largely but not inevitably the result of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation.
For 20 years, Europe has witnessed what Germans feel is a massive de-industrialisation.
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As the region's workers migrated to cities during the country's rapid industrialisation, they formed the backbone of South Korea's unions.
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This irony is that Britain, where this brouhaha started, was the first nation to encourage industrialisation in the 19th century.
As some scientists in the 1960s and 1970s correctly noted, Salmonella infection may be rooted in the industrialisation of egg-production.
That means, pessimists fear, that African countries may fail to navigate the virtuous cycle of industrialisation, growing employment, increasing productivity and prosperity.
Minister Sen says that the process of industrialisation has to go on.
Not coincidentally, West Bengal has been ruled for 30 years by the Communists, who until a few years ago opposed most industrialisation.
The notion is that industrialisation turns traditional societies into secular-rational ones, while post-industrial development brings about a shift towards values of self-expression.
From Mexico to the Philippines, they are now trying to curb the worst of the air and water pollution that typically accompanies industrialisation.
Powerful longer-term phenomena such as industrialisation and urbanisation, as well as more robust fiscal positions, underpin our positive view on emerging market equities.
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The Front's core issues - immigration, crime, de-industrialisation - resonate less there than in the working class suburbs of northern, southern and eastern cities.
Thus, it is impossible to understand the development of liability law in the 19th century without placing it in the context of America's breakneck industrialisation.
Dilma Rousseff, the unattached president of Brazil, leads a country where rapid industrialisation has gone hand in hand with people getting married less and later.
Contemporary artistic movements and the visual representation of industrialisation still offer a valuable window into the rapid pace of change, and how they were negotiated at the time.
Rather, in his corporate state he wanted to preserve Portugal as a rural and religious society where industrialisation and other modernising influences would be excluded.
And they are doing so at a time of economic uncertainty: a depressed stockmarket and indications that Malaysia's breakneck pace of industrialisation may not be sustainable.
With state steel mills, petrol stations and meat-packing factories among the many public enterprises on the auction block, Ataturk's legacy of state-led industrialisation will soon have rusted away.
The Great Depression and two World Wars shook the continent to its core, and rapid industrialisation and urbanisation saw the need for space in cities at a premium.
What is industrialisation, if not man trying to conquer nature?
Concerned about how industrialisation eroded workers' links with their mountain origins, Zegna saw easier access as a way to maintain roots and widen public appreciation of the area's beauty.
Just as people lived on farms when the country was agricultural, and moved to cities during industrialisation, the natural home for Britain's new economic order seems to be the suburbs.
There is something to this, but Japan's national obsession with quality was apparent early in its post-war industrialisation, when it adopted the teachings of W. Edwards Deming, an American quality-control guru.
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