Mastering The Machine: Poverty, Aid And Technology

by Ian Smillie

Overview

'Mastering the Machine Revisited' is about the connection between poverty, aid and technology. It is about a search that has been going on, officially in the developing world for over forty years, and less officially in most countries since the beginning of time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367004873
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/18/2019
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — The failure to learn from failure — A tale of two worlds — Poverty in the South — The best of the West; thinking big — The third sector and the Third World — What We Know — Technology in history: lies and promises — Small is beautiful — Farmers, food and forests — Post-harvest technologies — Energy and power — The house that Jack built: construction materials — Light engineering and the very late starters — An enabling environment — Perspectives on women and technology — Employment and the informal sector: the economists lose control — Technology: the policy factor — Mastering the machine

Editorial Reviews

Using historical and current examples, Smillie illustrates the interaction between economic, social, and technological factors that result in the success or failure of development projects, and he draws lessons for the present from experiences in development since 1960. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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