Appropriate technologies for developing countries
Technological decisions and the pace of technical change affect all development processes and and, in turn, are affected by them. The combinations and proportions in which labor, material resources, and capital are used influence not only the type and quantity of goods and services produced, but also the distribution of their benefits and the prospects for overall growth. The significance of technological choices made in the course of development extends beyond economics to social structure and political processes as well. The new products and new methods, which are the central features of the technological transformations in the developing countries, represent especially sharp breaks with the past and thus have especially profound consequences. Because they interact extensively and intricately with development processes, technological decisions can also be used as conscious instruments of development policy. The growing interest in finding and implementing appropriate technologies reflects an implicit, if not always explicit, recognition of the essential role of technology in development. This report examines the role of tehcnology in developing countries to determine the content and methods of appropriate technological decisions. Decisions about technology are always specific; they are choices of particular products and production methods. The objective of this report, however, is to arrive at generalizations about the character and consequences of such microeconomic decisions
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Washington, D.C. (USA)
1977
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