As discussed in Chapter 10, appropriate technology for LDCs should fit their factor proportions. According to E. F. Schumacher (1965:91–96), the advocate of small is beautiful (Chapter 2), an intermediate technology is needed – techniques somewhere between Western capital-intensive processes and the LDCs’ traditional instruments. In practice, however, many LDCs use capital-intensive methods. Some- times, entrepreneurs, bound in inertia, may not question existing capital-intensive designs. But these techniques have other attractions in LDCs as well.