Fueled industrialization--new innovations created new industries or improved the methods of in place industries. This created jobs and circulated money.
Innovation makes a country wealthy. It helps to create industries, jobs, and new products for the market. When innovations come from within a country added to the ability to produce that innovation, the wealth stays within the country and creates a self-sustaining system.
I don't understand your question, maybe you can rephrase it.
To be clear. Buddhism is a religion, and Theravada is a type of Buddhism. Basically there are three major groups of Buddhism, namely Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana.