Industrialize
verb
To change a country's economy by developing industries in it.
The government is planning to industrialize the rural areas in order to create more jobs.

Often appears as...
- industrialize a country
- industrialize a rural area
verb
To make a process in business or agriculture more large-scale and mechanized.
They have industrialized the process of making plastic bottles, increasing production dramatically.

Often appears as...
- industrialize a process
- industrialize production
verb
To change from traditional or domestic methods to industrial methods.
The company industrialized its production by replacing manual workers with machines.

Often appears as...
- industrialize production
- industrialize manufacturing
verb
To change a country's economy by developing industries in it.
The government is planning to industrialize the rural areas in order to create more jobs.

Often appears as...
- industrialize a country
- industrialize a rural area
verb
To make a process in business or agriculture more large-scale and mechanized.
They have industrialized the process of making plastic bottles, increasing production dramatically.

Often appears as...
- industrialize a process
- industrialize production
verb
To change from traditional or domestic methods to industrial methods.
The company industrialized its production by replacing manual workers with machines.

Often appears as...
- industrialize production
- industrialize manufacturing
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Economic Transition
Focuses on a country's shift from agriculture to manufacturing-based economy.

Japan rapidly industrialized in the late 19th century.
Development Implications
Often implies advancements in technology and infrastructure.

The nation's plan to industrialize boosted its technological capabilities.
Job Market Shift
May lead to more urban jobs and fewer agricultural jobs.

As we industrialize the countryside, more factory jobs appear.
Economic Transition
Focuses on a country's shift from agriculture to manufacturing-based economy.

Japan rapidly industrialized in the late 19th century.
Development Implications
Often implies advancements in technology and infrastructure.

The nation's plan to industrialize boosted its technological capabilities.
Job Market Shift
May lead to more urban jobs and fewer agricultural jobs.

As we industrialize the countryside, more factory jobs appear.
Economic Transition
Focuses on a country's shift from agriculture to manufacturing-based economy.

Japan rapidly industrialized in the late 19th century.
Development Implications
Often implies advancements in technology and infrastructure.

The nation's plan to industrialize boosted its technological capabilities.
Job Market Shift
May lead to more urban jobs and fewer agricultural jobs.

As we industrialize the countryside, more factory jobs appear.
Video examples
Learning from smallpox:...
and eliminate it from that region. Once this strategy had succeeded in ridding most industrialized countries from disease, health officials realized that eradicating it worldwide was within reach. But this was not an easy process, proving especially difficult in places suffering from poor infrastructure
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When The World Gets 1℃...
up in the morning and turn on the light or look at your cell phone to the moment you go to bed at night and even then because your cell phone is still drawing power at night i mean we're all using energy all the time and in the industrialized world that energy is almost entirely fossil fuels
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Thoughts on humanity,...
and my framework, like the newly industrialized aspirational humanity, began to alter. In the urban rush for a new, more embellished survival, things started to look a little different. I met people who had descended from all over the world, faces, races, genders, money-lenders.
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The paradox of choice PIPE...
The reason that everything was better back when everything was worse is that when everything was worse, it was actually possible for people to have experiences that were a pleasant surprise. Nowadays, the world we live in -- we affluent, industrialized citizens,
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What is a gift economy?...
may be read as ending the social relationship. So, are gift economies exclusive to small-scale societies outside the industrialized world? Not quite. For one thing, even in these cultures, gift economies function alongside a market system for other exchanges.
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Garth Lenz: The true...
and that would industrialize an area the size of Florida. In doing so, we'll be removing a large part of our greatest carbon sink and replacing it with the most high greenhouse-gas emission oil in the future. The world does not need any more tar mines.
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Caring for maternal...
of maternal deaths in the developed world and are the only industrialized country with the rising maternal mortality ratio we think of ourselves as innovators and leaders in a lot of things in this country but what the statistics behind the stories are
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Hans Rosling: Global...
had one billion people. In the developing world, she said, they had two billion people. And they lived away then. There was a big gap between the one billion in the industrialized world and the two billion in the developing world.
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Sleep is your superpower...
It is your life-support system, and it is Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality. And the decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness,
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Marijuana Nation PIPE...
like to see worldwide according to the UN Canada has the highest number of pot smokers in the industrialized world and Vancouver is the center kosher salt best
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Learning from smallpox:...
and eliminate it from that region. Once this strategy had succeeded in ridding most industrialized countries from disease, health officials realized that eradicating it worldwide was within reach. But this was not an easy process, proving especially difficult in places suffering from poor infrastructure
Video examples
When The World Gets 1℃...
up in the morning and turn on the light or look at your cell phone to the moment you go to bed at night and even then because your cell phone is still drawing power at night i mean we're all using energy all the time and in the industrialized world that energy is almost entirely fossil fuels
Video examples
Thoughts on humanity,...
and my framework, like the newly industrialized aspirational humanity, began to alter. In the urban rush for a new, more embellished survival, things started to look a little different. I met people who had descended from all over the world, faces, races, genders, money-lenders.
Video examples
The paradox of choice PIPE...
The reason that everything was better back when everything was worse is that when everything was worse, it was actually possible for people to have experiences that were a pleasant surprise. Nowadays, the world we live in -- we affluent, industrialized citizens,
Video examples
What is a gift economy?...
may be read as ending the social relationship. So, are gift economies exclusive to small-scale societies outside the industrialized world? Not quite. For one thing, even in these cultures, gift economies function alongside a market system for other exchanges.
Video examples
Garth Lenz: The true...
and that would industrialize an area the size of Florida. In doing so, we'll be removing a large part of our greatest carbon sink and replacing it with the most high greenhouse-gas emission oil in the future. The world does not need any more tar mines.
Video examples
Caring for maternal...
of maternal deaths in the developed world and are the only industrialized country with the rising maternal mortality ratio we think of ourselves as innovators and leaders in a lot of things in this country but what the statistics behind the stories are
Video examples
Hans Rosling: Global...
had one billion people. In the developing world, she said, they had two billion people. And they lived away then. There was a big gap between the one billion in the industrialized world and the two billion in the developing world.
Video examples
Sleep is your superpower...
It is your life-support system, and it is Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality. And the decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness,
Video examples
Marijuana Nation PIPE...
like to see worldwide according to the UN Canada has the highest number of pot smokers in the industrialized world and Vancouver is the center kosher salt best
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F. Sionil Jose
Filipino Writer
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

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Studs Terkel
American Journalist
People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.

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Olympia Snowe
American Politician
Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

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Kofi Annan
Ghanaian Statesman
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

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Petro Poroshenko
Ukrainian Businessman
Ukraine is an industrialized nation that can produce their own weapons. We're talking about the defensive weapons, which help us just defensively.

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Jens Martin Skibsted
Danish Designer
Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.

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John Boyd Orr
Scottish Politician
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

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Yoweri Museveni
Ugandan Statesman
I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.

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F. Sionil Jose
Filipino Writer
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

Quote examples
Studs Terkel
American Journalist
People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.

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Olympia Snowe
American Politician
Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

Quote examples
Kofi Annan
Ghanaian Statesman
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

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Petro Poroshenko
Ukrainian Businessman
Ukraine is an industrialized nation that can produce their own weapons. We're talking about the defensive weapons, which help us just defensively.

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Jens Martin Skibsted
Danish Designer
Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.

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John Boyd Orr
Scottish Politician
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

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Yoweri Museveni
Ugandan Statesman
I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.

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