Institutions, Technology and Development in Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367663780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 130 str.

Jeffrey James

Opis

An extensive literature has demonstrated that technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa are largely inappropriate:that is,that they are typically capital and import-intensive rather than labour and local input-intensive.These technologies have created a pattern of development that is highly unequal with widespread unemployment and under employment.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: theories of institutions

PART I Non-digital technologies

2. Scaling up pilot projects in Africa: four cases

3. The changing institutional environment for technology in Africa

4. An institutional critique of measures to compare technological capabilities between rich and poor countries: the case of Africa

PART II Digital technologies

5. Internet use, institutions and well-being: evidence from Africa

6. Institutional and societal innovations in IT for developing countries

7. The macroeconomic consequences of the One Laptop per Child program

8. Sharing mechanisms for IT in developing countries, social capital and quality of life

9. A sequential analysis of the welfare effects of mobile phones in Africa

O autorze

Jeffrey James has researched and taught in South Africa, England, the USA and the Netherlands. He has written extensively in the area of technology and development, including issues related to emerging digital technologies. Much of his work in this area relates to sub-Saharan Africa.