Mastering The Machine

Preface -- The failure to learn from failure -- A tale of two worlds -- Poverty in the South -- The best of the West; thinking big -- The third sector and the Third World -- What We Know -- Technology in history: lies and promises -- Small is beautiful -- Farmers, food and forests -- Post-harvest technologies -- Energy and power -- The house that Jack built: construction materials -- Light engineering and the very late starters -- An enabling environment -- Perspectives on women and technology -- Employment and the informal sector: the economists lose control -- Technology: the policy factor -- Mastering the machine