Other policy (Record no. 40669)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1853390593
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 339.5 OTH
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Stewart, Frances (ed.)
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Other policy
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Intermediate technology
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1990
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 486: ill.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. When E.F. Schumacher published Small is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered in 1973, appropriate technology appeared to offer a very promising approach to development. The idea was simple. All developing nations had an abundance of people the most important production factor. What the people needed were technologies appropriate to their conditions, technologies which would be low on capital, labour-intensive, small-scale, adapted to local skill levels, and that would use local materials and renewable forms of energy. Yet the strategy proposed in Small is Beautiful has not been implemented on a large scale.<br/><br/>Impediments result from the public policy environment. Macro-policies affect micro level decisions, by manipulating economic incentives and constraints, such as the money supply, interest rates, currency exchange rates, and the availability of credit for different sectors and even sub-sectors. Direct public investments in infrastructure and human resource development and the tying of foreign aid frequently favour the selection of inappropriate technologies<br/><br/>This publication reviews the major policy issues associated with the introduction of policies to promote appropriate technology. In addition to identifying more appropriate macro-policies, the papers published here suggest positive programmes of action that can be instituted at the national level. Many of the proposed reforms- for example in fiscal and monetary policies, R & D programmes, banking and credit policies complement the IMF/World Bank structural adjustment loan package. At a minimum such changes would remove the hostility toward appropriate technology prevalent in many countries and the bias in favour of large-scale capital-intensive industry.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Macroeconomics
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Thomas, Hend (ed.)
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Personal name Wilde, Ton De (ed.)
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library   2020-02-04   339.5 OTH 50627 2020-02-04 2020-02-04 Books

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