1979 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Choice of Technologies: The Influence of Multinational Financial Agencies
Author : Harold B. Dunkerley
Published in: Appropriate Technologies for Third World Development
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The multilateral financial agencies influence technologies in developing countries in a large number of ways, some conscious, many inadvertent, most peripheral. On balance, their influence on the appropriateness of the technologies adopted appears to have been beneficial, largely as a result of their insistence on operational efficiency.