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dc.creatorCampbell, P.A.
dc.date2011-09-08T14:27:20Z
dc.date2011-09-08T14:27:20Z
dc.date1975-11
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T16:40:16Z
dc.date.available2013-01-04T16:40:16Z
dc.date.issued04-01-13
dc.identifierCampbell, P.A. (1975) Appropriate technology innovation for rural industrialisation in LDCs. Working paper no. 252, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
dc.identifierhttp://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/1135
dc.identifier316387
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11295/7571
dc.descriptionRural industrialisation using intermediate or appropriate technologies is probably the most valid to increasing employment and living standards in LDCs. This involves the design of technologies to suit the very low economic and technical resources of the intended recipients as well as their social environment. Design in this field requires an abnormally wide spectrum of skills drawn from technology and the social sciences. Most of the small amount of work currently being done in the field is product and not market oriented. There appears to be rather too much preoccupation with research instead of development work. It is suggested that some new type of multi-disciplinary organisation with development and not research motivations is required to effect progress. An investment by the world in large scale rural industrialisation, in LDCs will probably be cheaper in the long run than the financing of the inevitable famines which will result from the settlement of marginal lands by the unskilled undercapitalised surplus populations of these countries.
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInstitute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
dc.relationWorking Papers.;252
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.rightsInstitute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
dc.subjectRural Development
dc.subjectIndustrial Development
dc.titleAppropriate technology innovation for rural industrialisation in LDCs
dc.typeSeries paper (non-IDS)


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