Appropriate Technologies for Developing Countries |
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SUMMARY | 1 |
INTERACTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL DECISIONS | 19 |
ALTERNATIVE CRITERIA OF APPROPRIATENESS | 37 |
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achieve Agricultural Development Council analysis appropriate technologies balance of payments capital choice of appropriate choice of technology Colombia competitive consumption Cooperation and Development cost minimization cost-benefit analysis criteria of appropriateness criterion depends developing countries development goals development process Eckaus Economic Cooperation economic growth effects employment engineering equipment Evenson example export farmers firms Gerard K Green Revolution important income distribution increase industrialized countries inefficient influence innovations inputs intensive intermediate technologies International Agricultural Research investment labor force labor-intensive methods major manufacturing markets maximization ment modern multinational corporations nomic objectives Organization for Economic output overall particular technologies patterns perfect competition political development potential private enterprise problems range rates relatively requires role Ruttan Science small enterprise small-scale enterprise social sources studies substitution technical techniques technological alternatives technological change technological choices technological decisions technological information tion types typically United Nations University Press Vernon W World Bank Yale University
