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Mirages of Development : Science and Technology for the Third Worlds / Andre Lebeau, Jean-Jacques Salomon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781555873684
  • 9781685854720
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I THE SETBACKS TO DEVELOPMENT -- 1 No Shortcut to Development After All -- 2 The Many Third Worlds -- 3 A Basic Discontinuity -- 4 The Contemporary Technical System -- 5 The Science of the Poor -- PART 2 THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION -- 6 The Looking-Glass Race -- 7 The Machines from the North -- 8 The Cathedrals in the Desert -- 9 The Newly Industrialized Countries -- 10 History's Revenge -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- About the Book and the Authors
Summary: The authors consider why the great majority of Third World countries have failed to solve the problems of underdevelopment by relying on science and technology, while a very few of them—the newly industrialized countries—have at least partially succeeded.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I THE SETBACKS TO DEVELOPMENT -- 1 No Shortcut to Development After All -- 2 The Many Third Worlds -- 3 A Basic Discontinuity -- 4 The Contemporary Technical System -- 5 The Science of the Poor -- PART 2 THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION -- 6 The Looking-Glass Race -- 7 The Machines from the North -- 8 The Cathedrals in the Desert -- 9 The Newly Industrialized Countries -- 10 History's Revenge -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- About the Book and the Authors

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The authors consider why the great majority of Third World countries have failed to solve the problems of underdevelopment by relying on science and technology, while a very few of them—the newly industrialized countries—have at least partially succeeded.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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