Technology and Underdevelopment

✍ Scribed by Frances Stewart (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
The Technological Choice....Pages 1-31
The Employment Problem — a Conceptual Discussion....Pages 32-57
Inappropriate Technology....Pages 58-94
Appropriate Technology....Pages 95-113
Technological Dependence....Pages 114-140
Capital Goods in Developing Countries....Pages 141-156
Trade and Technology....Pages 157-184
The Choice of Technique: Empirical Studies....Pages 185-207
The Choice of Technique — Maize Grinding in Kenya....Pages 208-238
Cement Block Manufacture in Kenya....Pages 239-273
Some Conclusions....Pages 274-279
Back Matter....Pages 280-304

✦ Subjects

Development Economics