Import substitution industrialization (ISI) is an economic development strategy that encourages a country to make goods at home that it had previously imported. The strategy was based on the idea that countries dependent on exports of primary products were at a disadvantage relative to industrialized countries that exported manufactured goods. In the 1950s, structuralist economist Raúl Prebisch and others argued that developing countries could reduce this disadvantage by building domestic manufacturing.
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