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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... poor CDR farmers 157 7.1 Development vocabulary 187 7.2 Four approaches to development 208 7. 3 Professional, institutional and personal conditions, values, norms and roles: Shifts for a grounded pro-poor realism 212. Boxes. The ...
... poor communications and far from the services of urban centres, raise costs and the difficulties of management. There is a danger that both organizational and productive effectiveness will be restrained by the inbuilt incompatibilities ...
... poor projects – combine in a criterion applicable to choices in agricultural development. The Perkerra Irrigation Scheme, with its requirement from the start of complex and continuing organization involving government support, can be ...
... poor people. Over four decades in India, 20 million people were displaced by development programmes and forced into involuntary resettlement. Seventy-five per cent of them were without 'rehabilitation', and the vast majority were ...
... poor. As the new century came in, lenders and donors were abandoning field projects and focusing on policy. Some big projects, though, if well surveyed, fairly administered and then irreversibly implemented, are needed and justified. I ...
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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 |