New technology for rural women
Paradoxes of sustainability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3886342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Schoonmaker Freudenberger, K Freudenberger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 13-22 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development in Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/096145249100077461 |
| OpenAlex | W2059367116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article discusses the difficulties of reaching relatively poor populations with labour-saving technologies. Taking the case of milling and dehulling technologies in Senegal and The Gambia, it presents a simple analytic model that helps to explain why the vast majority of these labour-saving machines are under-utilised in rural areas. Though donors continue to support such projects widely, in few cases do they provide significant benefits to the broad population in the short term, and nor are they sustainable in the longer term. The key constraint is the lack of effective demand, owing to rural women's limited income-generating opportunities. In the time saved by using a machine to dehull or mill their coarse grains, they are unable to earn enough money even to pay the fees to use the machine, much less to earna surplus
Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Mill · Natural resource economics · Political science · Population · Rural area · Rural population · Sociology · Sustainability · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Engineering · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2011 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |