UNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development – serie
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9 produkter
Women Encounter Technology
Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
Av Swasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
Inbunden, 1995
3065 kr
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This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide.The book provides a critique of postmodernism and …
In Pursuit of Science and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
Av J. L. Enos
Inbunden, 1995
2826 kr
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This is a study of the impact of the economic crisis and subsequent adjustment policies in the African economies on the scientific and technological capabilities in those countries. It includes studies of Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.
Politics of Technology in Latin America
Inbunden, 1996
1827 kr
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This collection sets out to explore technology policy in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s. It is based on country studies and industry studies in the main Latin American economies and examines the political turmoil surrounding protected industrialisation in these countries.
Exporting Africa
Technology, Industrialism and Trade
Av Sam Wangwe
Inbunden, 1995
2826 kr
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Exporting Africa explains how firms, which have developed export trade in Sub-Saharan economies, have been able to sustain their competitiveness in the face of rapid technological change in the international economy: in short, how they deal with the threats and the promises which rapid …
Women Encounter Technology
Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
Av Swasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
Häftad, 1997
924 kr
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This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide.The book provides a critique of postmodernism and …
Technology, Market Structure and Internationalization
Issues and Policies for Developing Countries
Av Nagesh Kumar, N. S. Siddharthan
Inbunden, 1997
3065 kr
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Technology, Market Structure and Internationalization discusses the domestic and external factors that impinge upon the process of technological capability building in developing countries and draws policy implications. Specifically, it examines the interaction between technological effort in …
Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfers
Impacts on and Prospects for Developing Countries
Av Nagesh Kumar
Inbunden, 1998
2512 kr
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In this book, Nagesh Kumar and expert contributors examine and explain the emerging patterns in international technology transfers and foreign direct investment flows (FDIs) over the past two decades. They analyse the trends in internationalization of corporate activity in individual source …
Flexible Automation in Developing Countries
The impact on scale and scope and the implications for location of production
Inbunden, 1998
2133 kr
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This book examines the extent of, and motives for, the diffusion of flexible automation (FA) at global level and then turns to the local and firm level, bringing together in-depth studies of sixty-two firms in Brazil, India, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela. Research focuses on the impact of …
Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalized Information Economy
Employment and Distance Education
Av Maria Ines Bastos, Swasti Mitter
Inbunden, 1999
787 kr
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This volume explores the challenges and the opportunities created by the rapid growth of 'telematics'. European firms benefit through lower labour costs and access to big new markets in the fields of education and training. At the same time European governments are concerned about jobs …
