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Mastering the machine revisited : poverty, aid and technology / Ian Smillie.
LIBRA HC60 .S546 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smillie, Ian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty.
- Economic assistance.
- Appropriate technology.
- Technical assistance--Developing countries.
- Technical assistance.
- Developing countries.
- Poor--Developing countries.
- Poor.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 288 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [New edition].
- Place of Publication:
- London : ITDG Publishing, 2000.
- Summary:
- 'Mastering the Machine Revisted' 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 by a realization that the technologies applied to the problem have severe limitations. We have sent people safely to the moon but we cannot ensure that people will live safely on earth - safe from war, disease, and the crushing poverty that stifles ambition, hope and enterprise.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Mastering the machine. London : Intermediate Technology, 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1853395145
- 1853395072
- OCLC:
- 45682981
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