outward-looking

comparative more outward-looking · superlative most outward-looking

1. Looking towards or thinking about other people, places, or things, rather than towards or about oneself.

   The essence of the outward-looking developing strategy was to make use of the nation's comparative advantage in labor-intensive manufactured goods.

   1988, Regional Seminar on Licensing and Other Technology Transfer Arrangements

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   While the former had moved towards more outward-looking and export-led development strategies by the late seventies and early eighties, the countries of South Asia, by and large, continued to follow a more inward-looking strategy till the eighties.

   2008 December 4, Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur, Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development, →ISBN, page 401

   The post-Bicentenary period also saw a shift in the emphasis the Australian film industry took towards production emerging from commercial trends in the Australian film industry seeking an outward-looking cinema that engaged with a globalized marketplace.

   2019 January 31, Andrew James Couzens, A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 18282017, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 203

   Don't count who's in the room before you begin—lead with these outward-looking questions instead: • What existing communities of people are we trying to serve and to support? • What existing organizations and groups in our community are potential stakeholders in this project? • Who then should be in the room?

   2020 May 12, Jeanmarie Higgins, Teaching Critical Performance Theory: In Today’s Theatre Classroom, Studio, and Communities, Routledge, →ISBN