Development studies
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Columbus
In "Columbus: His Enterprise", Hans Koning describes the personality and motivation of a man who changed the course of hisotry. Exploding the myth of the Great Navigator, the author reveals how Colombus accidentally found a continent and systematically pillaged its resources. This controversial book...
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The Dominican Republic
"The Dominican Republic is the land Columbus loved best" runs the advertising slogan. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the explorer's arrival on the island of Hispaniola, the government has spent a reported US$40 millions on building a bizarre commemorative lighthouse. In the process, it h...
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Other Policy
Ton de Wilde, Henk Thomas, Frances Stewart
Foreign aid to developing countries often favours inappropriate technologies. This book reviews the policies promoting appropriate technology and identifies positive programmes of action that could be instituted at a national level.
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Other Policy
Ton de Wilde, Henk Thomas, Frances Stewart
Foreign aid to developing countries often favours inappropriate technologies. This book reviews the policies promoting appropriate technology and identifies positive programmes of action that could be instituted at a national level.
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Science and Technology
Robert E Evenson, Gustav Ranis
The success of newly industrialized countries of Southeast Asia is a prime example of the role that science and technology can play in development strategies. This book aims to identify those policies which have proved to be workable in most situations.
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Agro-mechanical Diffusion in a Backward Region
This exploration of the conditions which characterize the process of a general application of agro-mechanical technology is illustrated through a detailed study of the use of a new agricultural tool in rural India.
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The Economies of Small
The Economies of Small describes the origins and development of the appropriate technology movement, and analyses both its changing concerns at the different stages of development, and also its abiding emphasis on scale and human values.
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Grenada: Revolution In Reverse
The US invasion of Grenada in 1983 was seen as a victory for freedom. By the early 1990s, however, the story of post-invasion Grenada had become one of disillusionment and cynicism. This work reveals the extent of the US failure, economic and political, and its impact on the island's people.
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Haiti
Almost 200 years ago, the Haitian people launched a revolution which ended slavery and established the world's first independent black republic. But it was a country 'born in ruins'. Once a source of plunder for the French colonial power, the national economy has since been a source of personal enri...
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Honduras
Honduras has been called the 'Pentagon Republic' because of the vast military complex the US has constructed on its soil. But lack of national sovereignty is not new to Honduras. When strong local elites failed to emerge after Independence, the US banana companies soon dominated political and econom...