The Role of Aid Donors in the Choice of Appropriate Technology

J. M. Healey and J. T. Winpenny
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J. M. Healey: Ministry Of Overseas Development
J. T. Winpenny: Ministry Of Overseas Development

Chapter 14 in Appropriate Technologies for Third World Development, 1979, pp 265-277 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This paper considers some of the views held about what aid donors can do to encourage the use of appropriate technology in the less developed countries (hereafter, ‘LDCs’) which they aid. In the first part we bring together in one piece a range of charges which have been made about the distorting effects of aid on technology in developing countries. This statement is presented as an Aunt Sally and we term it the ‘Naive View’ since we go on to discuss some of its omissions and misconceptions in an attempt to arrive at a more realistic view of the real power and influence of the aid donor. The second part of the paper restates the role of the donor with reference to the agents of technological choice, the decision centres in LDCs, and the means available to the foreign aid agency.

Keywords: Capital Good; Recipient Country; Donor Country; Local Cost; Investment Programme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03931-9_14

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