Introduction

Abstract

In 1976 the ILO’s World Employment Conference adopted the so-called ‘basic-needs approach’ to development. According to this approach, ‘development planning should include, as an explicit goal, the satisfaction of an absolute level of basic needs’. 3 The main policies that seemed to be implied by this approach were land reform, and the application of appropriate technology in order to increase productive employment, on the one hand, and the provision of government services such as education and health, in order to improve the condition of the poorest in society, on the other. A relatively neglected implication of the basic-needs approach has been the question of product choice and appropriate products. It is to a greater knowledge of this aspect that this book is intended to contribute. Although it is the first — to our knowledge — that deals systematically with product choice in developing countries, two groups of researchers have contributed in a fundamental way to the analytical framework which is the basis of the eight case-studies included in this volume. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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