“On 29th August 1965, an article was published in The Observer entitled “How to help them help themselves”, written by Fritz Schumacher the distinguished economist with support from his close friend Observer editor, David Astor. In it, Schumacher pointed out the inadequacies of aid based on the transfer of large scale, capital-intensive technologies and argued … Continue reading Halting the push-push of global development
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Mobile telephony and the entrepreneur
This article – “Mobile telephony and the entrepreneur: An African perspective” – was originally written for the autumn edition of Microfinance Insights magazine. A copy of the original article is available as a PDF here Whenever the words “Africa” and “economic development” meet – which is often – it’s usually in the context of external, … Continue reading Mobile telephony and the entrepreneur