ISBN: 0333256115 
Godina izdanja: 1978
Oblast: Ekonomija
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Frances Stewart - Technology and Underdevelopment
Macmillan, 1978
304 str.
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stanje: dobro, potpis na predlistu.

Second Edition

Monograph on the impact of advanced technology transfer on developing countries - argues that, since technological change is determined by prevailing social and economic conditions, advanced country technology has led to unemployment and unsatisfactory income distribution in poor countries, and presents case studies illustrating the complex problem of choice of technology and the difficulties of getting an appropriate technology developed and used, etc. Bibliography pp. 280 to 295, diagrams, graphs, references and statistical tables

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. The Technological Choice
2. The Employment Problem – a Conceptual Discussion
3. Inappropriate Technology
4. Appropriate Technology
5. Technological Dependence
6. Capital Goods in Developing Countries
7. Trade and Technology
8. The Choice of Technique: Empirical Studies
9. The Choice of Technique – Maize Grinding in Kenya
10. Cement Block Manufacture in Kenya
11. Some Conclusions
Bibliographical References
Index

Frances Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics, Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), University of Oxford, UK. Among many publications, she is the co-author of UNICEF s influential study Adjustment with a Human Face and author of Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict. She has directed a number of major research programmes including several financed by the UK Government s Department for International Development and has served as Chair of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy.


Nonfiction, Economy, 0333256115