Fong Chan Onn

Appropriate Technology: An Empirical Study of Bicycle Manufacturing in Malaysia

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This study is based on the results of a project on appropriate technology financed by the International Labour Office, Geneva. The paper was completed while the writer was a Japan Foundation Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo. Support from these organizations are gratefully acknowledged. the writer, however, remains responsible for the opinions expressed.

Excerpt from: Bicycle Reference Manual for Developing Countries. Edited by Barbara Gruehl Kipke, April 1991.

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Introduction
Criteria for evaliation of appropriate technology
The Malaysian bicycle industry
Bicycle manufacturing technologies
Poverty pattern and appropriate technology
References