Grass Roots Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Oral Histories and Social Change - Softcover

Wasserstrom, Robert

 
9780030016929: Grass Roots Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Oral Histories and Social Change
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0030016924 ISBN 13: 9780030016929
Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc, 1985

Synopsis

This volume, based on fieldwork by the Inter-American Foundation, examines whether grassroots activities are more efficient and effective in implementing development than conventional development programs. Included are oral histories of participants in seven different IAF-supported organizations that vary widely in purpose, membership, structure, and geographic distribution. "Grassroots Development in Latin America & the Caribbean" shows that impoverished people will use rural credit and other resources in ways not anticipated by development planners, and that these recipients often know how to make more efficient use of aid than the planners do. It concludes that innovative methods of development are best left not to government agencies, but to the people who will carry them out and who will ultimately gain or lose from the outcome.

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Publisher
Praeger Publishers Inc
Publication date
1985
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0030016924
ISBN 13 
9780030016929
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
240

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