Edited text of the Second Annual Surendra Patel Lecture on Development delivered at St. Mary’s University,  N.S. (Canada) on November 4, 2005. Reviews the work of Patel as a pioneer in research on technology transfer  at UNCTAD  in the 1970s and as a tireless campaigner for an International Code of Conduct on the Transfer of [...]

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Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture, Castries, St. Lucia, January 2002.
Revisits Sir Arthur Lewis’s views on foreign investment and technology transfer propounded in his celebrated 1950 article on West Indian industrialisation, in which he expressed confidence that local businessmen would learn the ‘tricks of the trade’ from foreign investors. Research undertaken n the 1970s suggests limited [...]

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