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...

Small Beginnings

Alan Bollard

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.

Arriving Where We Started

Michael Edwards

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

Industrial Employment through Appropriate Technology

Alan Bollard

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.

Jobs from Junks

Jon Vogler

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.

Lost-wax Casting

Peter Stern

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.

Sten Screen

Ian McLaren

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.

Women, Work and Technology in Rural South Asia

Frances Sinha

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).

Micro-Hydro Electric Power

Ray Holland

A summary of the state of the art in micro-hydro with a section on the economics of micro-hydro installation and operation. Invaluable to engineers, consultants and field workers in the developing world.

Package Deals

Jack Hindson

John Howe, Gordon Hathway

This is a detailed case history of the development and transfer of a new intermediate-scale technology for egg packing in Zambia. The successes and failures provide many lessons for all concerned with technology transfer.