International Forum on Appropriate Industrial Technology Held at New Delhi/Anand, India on November 20-30, 1978. Dualism and Technological Harmony for Balanced Development

摘要

The paper explores the possibility of a two-tier industrial development pattern in the Third World and the role technology should play in it. Such a development is aimed at reducing the dualism of these societies and therewith to improve the fate of the vast majority of the population living outside the modern sector. Somewhat more in particular the possibilities of a semi-urban industrialization in textiles is explored.