Development studies
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Skills For Life
Examines the question of how developing countries can mobilize and absorb the energies and industry of future generations by providing them with opportunities for productive work, and examines the appropriateness of vocational training schemes. Includes case studies from Nigeria, Trinidad and Malawi...
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Small-Scale Production
The bleak employment opportunities faced in many developing countries suggest a need for a large contribution by small-scale production units, looked at in this collection of case studies which represent six important dimensions in development contexts.
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Social Survey Methods
Written for planners and managers in development and relief agencies, Oxfam Development Guidelines draw on Oxfams experience to review current thinking on theory and practice in a range of development and relief fields. Social Survey Methods is a readable guide to selecting and implementing an appro...
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Solar Photovoltaic Products
A buyer's guide to systems for water-pumping and treatment, lighting, refrigeration, communications, and other applications. . Small solar powered devices are in use in developing countries for lighting, vaccine refrigeration, water pumping and other important development products, but little inform...
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Brazil: War on Children
"Brazil: War on Children" is a journey through the underworld of Brazil's ten million street children. The author interweaves first-hand reportage, interviews and statistics to paint a picture of life for the children. He discovers a world of pimps, muggers, prostitutes and petty criminals; homeless...
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Mini-cement
The book presents a study of the social and economic viability of mini-cement plants in the Indian economic context.
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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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Poverty and Rural Development
K. Puttaswamaiah, Michael Lipton
In the developing world, people in rural areas are even poorer than city dwellers. Reducing the gap between city and country, even slightly, could greatly improve the quality of peoples lives. This collection of essays presents evidence from a variety of countries and backgrounds - India, Sri Lanka,...
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Making Health Care Equipment
Health care practitioners, planners and artisans will find ideas and designs for equipment that can be made locally in relatively small workshops. Alternative materials and fabrication methods are described to meet differing local circumstances.
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Development of Indian Silk
Provides an overview of the techno-economic issues in the production of silk in India, examines the development impact of the activity and suggests strategies for strengthening its contribution to rural development.