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  1. Technology, globalization and poverty
    Autor*in: James, Jeffrey
    Erschienen: c2002
    Verlag:  Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K

    An 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... mehr

    Standort:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signatur:
    Online-Ressource
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    Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV)

     

    An 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. The author first illustrates how the impact of information technology on globalization can be conceptualized in terms of transaction costs, product proliferation and mechanisms of cumulative causation. He finds that globalization tends to benefit a relatively small group of rich individuals

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1840644842; 9781840644845
    Schlagworte: Poverty; Globalization; Technological innovations
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (x, 147 p), ill, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Conceptualizing the influence of information technology on globalization; 1. Information technology, transaction costs and globalization; 2. Product proliferation, comparative advantage and developing countries; 3. Information technology, cumulative causation and patterns of globalization in the Third World; PART II Pro-poor modes of technical integration into global economy; 4. Pro-poor modes of technical integration into the global economy

    5. Bridging the digital divide by means of low-cost information technologiesPART III Technology policy in Sub-Saharan Africa; 6. Aid reform in African industry: the technological dimension; 7. Trait-making for labour-intensive technology in Sub-Saharan Africa; Index

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