SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Dyeing and Printing
The text and line drawings describe chemical dyeing and printing techniques as they apply to small-scale operations, and how to plan for small-scale production.(Published in the Small-scale Textiles series).
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How to Make a Rope and Washer Pump
Shows how to make a simple, cheap, pump suitable for small-holding and garden use, a pump which can raise water from rivers or wells, with lifts of up to 30 metres. A simple clear text, with line drawings, showing how common materials can be used.
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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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Small-scale Mining
A guide to available equipment on all aspects of small-scale mining, from prospecting and surveying through haulage, handling and transport. It includes safety equipment, as well as world-wide coverage, with particular relevance to the developing world.
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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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Energy Dimension
Helps planners identify energy needs early on so they can be integrated into project design. Summarizes key issues, with detailed discussion of energy options and the dynamics of supply and demand; plus fact sheets and checklists for quick reference.
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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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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.