Product Description: This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and inequality in developing countries. To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual utilization of mobile phones as a means of communication and the degree to which they have supplanted fixed-line phones...read more

Product Description: Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development. In this timely book he undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate. Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions, the book looks not only at the digital divide but also at issues such as digital preparedness, leapfrogging and low-cost computers...read more

Product Description: The myth of Aethelred "the Unready" is disproved and Britain's military prowess in the face of Danish invasion is repositionedThe Danish invasions in the second decade of the 11th century came after unprecedented Viking attacks stretching back 30 years...read more

Product Description: Attempts to bring the benefits of information technology in the form of the internet to developing countries have, to date, foundered on the belief that this requires the beneficiaries to access the technology directly. As a result, the perceived huge benefits of such an enterprise have often failed to materialise...read more

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Product Description: This significant book presents an original examination of the theoretical and empirical interactions between globalization, technology and poverty. Jeffrey James studies the effect of information technology on patterns of globalization and explores how such patterns can be altered to reduce the growing global divide between rich and poor nations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume is concerned with the complexities of the relationship between globalization and different groups of consumers in developing countries. Globalization, it is argued, can yield frustration and disappointment as well as welfare gains for consumers; it may, but does not necessarily, displace local products and via the rapid recent expansion of the mass media, it offers policy-makers new opportunities to deal with acute social problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text explores the notion of a technological system and more specifically the distinction between modern and traditional technological systems. Using highly disaggregated data for a range of sectors and developing countries, this distinction has been applied to micro as well as macro-economy issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Industrialization in Africa has relied heavily on state institutions of various kinds and on the inflow of foreign capital, especially foreign aid. With particular reference to technology and on the basis of a wide range of case-studies, this book explains how these features of the African experience have jointly contributed not only to the many cases of failure in the public sector, but also to a number of exceptional cases that can be regarded as success stories...read more

Product Description: This book contends that large numbers in the Third World will become reliant on traditional rural technologies over the next thirty to forty years. Because of its emphasis on improving the typically low productivity of these technologies, the appropriate technology constitutes an essential part of any adequate policy response to this growing problem...read more