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Technology and Employment in Developing Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

J. W. Garmany
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This article discusses some of the issues involved in the choice of technology in developing countries, especially those in Africa, and the relationship of this to employment and output. The problem is to find an optimum combination of productive resources that comes nearest to satisfying two objectives: the full and economically efficient utilisation of such resources, and the creation of as much surplus as possible over current consumption, thereby making possible new investment and long-term growth.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 1978 , pp. 549 - 564
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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page 550 note 1 V. G. Desai, International Conference on Technology Transfer in Modernising Nations, Karachi, November 1973. Useful analyses of ‘appropriate’, ‘intermediate’, or ‘alternative’ technologies are to be found in the works of the late Schumacher, E. F., e.g. Small is Beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered (London, 1973),Google Scholar and, more recently, Stewart, Frances, Technology and Underdevelopment (London, 1977).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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