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Title:Multinational Corporations, Taste Transfer and Underdevelopment: A Case Study from Kenya
Author:Langdon, StevenISNI
Year:1975
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:2
Issue:2
Period:January-April
Pages:12-35
Language:English
Geographic term:Kenya
Subjects:multinational enterprises
technology
international relations
Economics and Trade
Development and Technology
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056247508703244
Abstract:The multinational corporation (mnc) is the agency through which advanced technology is transferred to the underdeveloped countries. In the case of the soap industry in Kenya, mnc investment has resulted in increasing unemployment and regional inequality, has made little and possibly a negative contribution to the balance of payments, and has failed to make linkages with the local economy and especially its resources. In particular, the mnc, through its promotion of new-brand-name products, transfer tastes from advanced to backward capitalist, thus reinforcing the process of inappropriate technology transfer. Nationalisation and a controlled industrial strategy are options not open to Kenya given the nature of this existing class structure, reinforced by the mncs and furthering their interst. Bibl., notes, tables.
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