Mastering The Machine

Poverty, Aid And Technology

AvIan Smillie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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'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. It is a search driven today by more hard core poverty than has ever been known, and b

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-18
Mått:147 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367004873

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Innehållsförteckning

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