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Technological transfer. 1. Appropriateness for developing countries

Abstract

Capital-intensive projects dominate the technology transferred to developing countries in spite of the need to serve a pool of unskilled labor and small capital reserves. Recent doubts about the appropriateness of large industrialization projects have questioned the social and economic benefits of this approach and led to an emphasis on innovative planning for the benefit of the urban and rural poor. This shift assumed that direct attacks on the roots of poverty will be more effective than the trickle-down approach, but development planners now see that technologies can be planned that are not limited to single groups. Official policies, often working against the adoption of appropriate technologies, must consider local needs and local resources. Farm equipment, for example, must minimize the need for skilled labor and maintenance. Planners for appropriate urban technology should emphasize local capability, but should also risk occasional failure in the effort to improve the efficiency of labor.
Authors:
Publication Date:
Dec 01, 1978
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
EPA-05-002159; EDB-79-048910
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Sci. Public Policy; (United Kingdom); Journal Volume: 5:6
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; AGRICULTURE; CAPITAL; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; INVESTMENT; LOW INCOME GROUPS; PLANNING; RURAL POPULATIONS; URBAN POPULATIONS; HUMAN POPULATIONS; POPULATIONS; 290500* - Energy Planning & Policy- Research, Development, Demonstration, & Commercialization; 290200 - Energy Planning & Policy- Economics & Sociology; 530100 - Environmental-Social Aspects of Energy Technologies- Social & Economic Studies- (-1989)
OSTI ID:
6220476
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: SPPLB
Submitting Site:
TIC
Size:
Pages: 444-448
Announcement Date:
Apr 01, 1979

Citation Formats

Berrie, T W. Technological transfer. 1. Appropriateness for developing countries. United Kingdom: N. p., 1978. Web.
Berrie, T W. Technological transfer. 1. Appropriateness for developing countries. United Kingdom.
Berrie, T W. 1978. "Technological transfer. 1. Appropriateness for developing countries." United Kingdom.
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