SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Educational Wooden Toys in Sri Lanka
A case study about the work of IT IS and Sarvodaya, a Sri Lankan development charity, in establishing the local production of educational pre-school toys. Full colour photographs illustrate the production process and end results.
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Grenada
Fitzroy Ambursley, James Dunkerley
The US invasion of Grenada in October 1983 was a flagrant and direct violation of international law. The Reagan government's determination to suppress the Grenadian people's right to sovereignty and the shallowness of its justification for this position indicate a preparedness to escalate further vi...
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Guyana: Fraudulent Revolution
Guyana is on the verge of economic collapse and a profound social crisis. The socialist rhetoric of President Forbes Burnham's regime contrasts strikingly with the ugly details of his personalist and authoritarian rule. Burnham supports progressive third world views internationally, yet his party is...
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Small Beginnings
Looks at the role of small firms and employment-generating technologies in reviving the economy. Includes studies of brewing, printing, brick-making, woollen textiles, plastic recycling, repair and servicing garages, and small-scale cheese production.
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Arriving Where We Started
In 1958 the first eight VSO volunteers arrived in Ghana and Sarawak. Since then over 20,000 others have worked overseas through VSO, and this book marks twenty-five years of their experiences and achievements, and of those among whom they lived and worked
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Industrial Employment through Appropriate Technology
This paper outlines the role that appropriate technology can play in employment generation in the industrialized West, and is illustrated with examples of technologies already in industrial operation and the policies designed to support them.
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Jobs from Junks
Presents a method of creating employment and cleaning up cities in developing countries by dismantling derelict cars. Includes a curriculum for a short training course in cutting up cars and instructions about selling the recovered materials and parts.
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Lost-wax Casting
Outlines the basic techniques of lost-wax casting and describes the equipment needed to carry out the process successfully. Explains how the equipment can be made, using local labour and natural resources readily available in developing countries.
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Sten Screen
The combination of stencil duplicating with screen process printing enables one to build a press very cheaply, using no sophisticated components for either construction or implementation. The sten screen will print a wide variety of formats and on many materials.
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Women, Work and Technology in Rural South Asia
Looks at the ways in which women have been ignored in the statistical accounting that forms the base for development planning, and links this bias to the marginalisation of women in the process of technological development. (Published in the ITDG Occasional Papers Series).