Ideas for DevelopmentRoutledge, 17/06/2013 - 320 من الصفحات Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate change, failing ecosystems, poverty, crushing debt and corporate exploitation, the future of our world looks dire and the solutions almost too monumental to consider. Yet all is not lost. Robert Chambers, one of the ?glass is half full? optimists of international development, suggests that the problems can be solved and everyone has the power at a personal level to take action, develop solutions and remake our world as it can and should be. Chambers peels apart and analyses aspects of development that have been neglected or misunderstood. In each chapter, he presents an earlier writing which he then reviews and reflects upon in a contemporary light before harvesting a wealth of powerful conclusions and practical implications for the future. The book draws on experiences from Africa, Asia and elsewhere, covering topics and concepts as wide and varied as irreversibility, continuity and commitment; administrative capacity as a scarce resource; procedures and principles; participation in the past, present and future; scaling up; behaviour and attitudes; responsible wellbeing; and concepts for development in the 21st century. |
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... political parties. . .?' – and this only gets as far as 'f' in an alphabetical listing. 'And why have you not ... politics, trade, debt, international relations, governance, agricultural subsidies in the North, or the latest ...
... political demands, perceived pressures of population, and the need to produce more from the land. With many origins, taking many forms, having high political priority, and being bounded and visible, they were attractive to researchers ...
... political commitments. The establishment of settlers sets a seal on commitment at a higher level, making abandonment extremely difficult and the use of protective political arguments extremely easy. The full repertoire of defences to ...
... politicians and civil servants if the lure of the big scheme is to be neutralized so that a balanced and realistic assessment can be made. Perhaps it is fortunate that so many African politicians and civil servants possess and farm ...
... politicians put together (Swift, 1726, Chapter 7). For the issues are less simple: they include whether, with the same resources, many more ears of corn, or many more blades of grass, might not be grown in other ways or in other places ...
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2 Aid and Administrative Capacity | 30 |
3 Procedures Principles and Power | 54 |
Review Reflections and Future | 86 |
5 PRA Participation and Going to Scale | 119 |
6 Behaviour Attitudes and Beyond | 156 |
7 For Our Future | 184 |
References | 221 |
Index | 252 |