Empirical comparison of manufacturing outputs of Asia with western Europe

Abstract

It is not in doubt Western Europe and North America, have dominated the world manufacturing sub-sector since the wake of industrial revolution. However, as civilization increases and spread across the world, other countries began to key into the global manufacturing vogue out of necessity. Most countries of the global south, which were mainly former colonies of the Northern Hemisphere, started becoming assertive by going full force into industrialization and particularly manufacturing. The Asian countries took advantage of this manufacturing vogue to chart their economies out of dependency on the West. In the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and even early part of 1980s, manufactured products from Asia were derided and despised by the West. Asian countries were not discouraged by the disparaging attitude of the West, but rather forge ahead with their manufacturing experimentation until when they attained perfection as from the 1990s. The manufacturing production of the Westem Europe witnessed serious decline, where Asian products became the most preferred even in Europe and North America towards the end of the 20th Century and the wake of the 21st Century. The Western Europe decline in manufacturing and their inability or refusal to acknowledge the growing superiority of the Asian countries' manufacturing feat, forms the motivation for this study. The study is a qualitative one where document studies, was adopted and utilized in generating data from secondary sources such as academic journals, bulletins, textbooks, scholarly papers, and internet materials. The generated data was analyzed through critical discourse method.
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