Industrial Development Report 2009 – Breaking In and Moving Up: New Industrial Challenges for the Bottom Billion and the Middle-Income Countries, by United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, Vienna: UNIDO, 2009, 146 pp.

This Report examines the opportunities and challenges faced by two groups of countries, the poorest countries of the world (the countries of the bottom billion) and the middle-income countries (the countries that are striving to catch up or move up the value chain). It is divided into three parts. To set the background of the study, Section I describes the importance of industrial development for growth in both groups of countries