Obstacles to Information Technology Transfer to the Third World

1993 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
R.M. Mwinyimbegu
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Education, Economic Development, and Technology Transfer: A Colonial Test

1989 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 939-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Third World ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
Mineral Sector ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

I test the hypothesis advanced by Richard Easterlin and others that the importation of modern technology and prospects for economic development in the Third World are principally a function of the local population's formal schooling. According to orthodoxy, manufacturing more than any other sector should repay investment in human capital. Yet the correlation of schooling with the manufacturing sector is much lower than with the mineral sector, an enclave in colonial economies and a symbol of underdevelopment.

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