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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Journal of Developing Areas
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Publisher:
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Industrializing Africa
Author: Makonnen Alemayehu
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865436534
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
An introduction to the political, social, and economic conditions of the continent, which provides the reader with a background setting to the existing conditions today. Includes over 78 annexes which contain hard-to-find information relating to various economic aspects of the economy by country.
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865436534
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
An introduction to the political, social, and economic conditions of the continent, which provides the reader with a background setting to the existing conditions today. Includes over 78 annexes which contain hard-to-find information relating to various economic aspects of the economy by country.
Developing to Scale
Author: Heidi Morefield
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682862X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The first critical book on “appropriate technology,” Developing to Scale shows how global health came to be understood as a problem to be solved with the right technical interventions. In 1973, economist E. F. Schumacher published Small Is Beautiful, which introduced a mainstream audience to his theory of “appropriate technology”: the belief that international development projects in the Global South were most sustainable when they were small-scale, decentralized, and balanced between the traditional and the modern. His theory gained widespread appeal, as cuts to the foreign aid budget, the national interests of nations seeking greater independence, postcolonial activism, and the rise of the United States’ tech sector drove stakeholders across public and private institutions toward cheaper tools. In the ensuing decades, US foreign assistance shifted away from massive modernization projects, such as water treatment facilities, toward point-of-use technologies like village water pumps and oral rehydration salts. This transition toward the small scale had massive implications for the practice of global health. Developing to Scale tells the history of appropriate technology in international health and development, relating the people, organizations, and events that shaped this consequential idea. Heidi Morefield examines how certain technologies have been defined as more or less “appropriate” for the Global South based on assumptions about gender, race, culture, and environment. Her study shows appropriate technology to be malleable, as different constituencies interpreted its ideas according to their own needs. She reveals how policymakers wielded this tool to both constrain aid to a scale that did not threaten Western interests and to scale the practice of global health through the development and distribution of technical interventions.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682862X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The first critical book on “appropriate technology,” Developing to Scale shows how global health came to be understood as a problem to be solved with the right technical interventions. In 1973, economist E. F. Schumacher published Small Is Beautiful, which introduced a mainstream audience to his theory of “appropriate technology”: the belief that international development projects in the Global South were most sustainable when they were small-scale, decentralized, and balanced between the traditional and the modern. His theory gained widespread appeal, as cuts to the foreign aid budget, the national interests of nations seeking greater independence, postcolonial activism, and the rise of the United States’ tech sector drove stakeholders across public and private institutions toward cheaper tools. In the ensuing decades, US foreign assistance shifted away from massive modernization projects, such as water treatment facilities, toward point-of-use technologies like village water pumps and oral rehydration salts. This transition toward the small scale had massive implications for the practice of global health. Developing to Scale tells the history of appropriate technology in international health and development, relating the people, organizations, and events that shaped this consequential idea. Heidi Morefield examines how certain technologies have been defined as more or less “appropriate” for the Global South based on assumptions about gender, race, culture, and environment. Her study shows appropriate technology to be malleable, as different constituencies interpreted its ideas according to their own needs. She reveals how policymakers wielded this tool to both constrain aid to a scale that did not threaten Western interests and to scale the practice of global health through the development and distribution of technical interventions.
Technology Choice
Author: Kelvin W Willoughby
Publisher: Dr Kelvin Wayne Willoughby
ISBN: 0813378060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Publisher: Dr Kelvin Wayne Willoughby
ISBN: 0813378060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Documents List
Author: United Nations Industrial Development Organization
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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East-West-South: Economic Interaction between Three Worlds
Author: Christopher Saunders
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349060682
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349060682
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books 1976 to 1982
Author: British Library
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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A Selected Bibliography on Alcohol Fuels
Author: Solar Energy Research Institute. Technical Information Office
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Category : Alcohol as fuel
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Alcohol as fuel
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Improving Traditional Rural Technologies
Author: Jeffrey James
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349093610
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This book contends that large numbers in the Third World will become reliant on traditional rural technologies over the next thirty to forty years. The author is concerned that policy responses to this problem are insufficient and advocates a broader analytic framework to tackle the problem.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349093610
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This book contends that large numbers in the Third World will become reliant on traditional rural technologies over the next thirty to forty years. The author is concerned that policy responses to this problem are insufficient and advocates a broader analytic framework to tackle the problem.
UNDOC, Current Index
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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