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Helping people help themselves : from the World Bank to an alternative philosophy of development assistance

Surveys the theoretical foundations for a philosophy of development - including the work of Albert Hirschman, Paolo Freire, John Dewey, and Soren Kierkegaard. The author offers a practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. He shifts the locus of initiative from the would-be helpers to the doers
eBook, English, 2006
1st pbk. ed View all formats and editions
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2006
1 online resource (xxiv, 334 pages)
9780472021765, 9781282423336, 0472021761, 1282423339
448663107
Introduction & overview
Internal & external motivation: beyond homo economicus
The indirect approach
Indirect approaches: intellectual history
Autonomy-respecting development assistance
Knowledge-based development assistance
Can development agencies learn & help clients learn?
Case study: assistance to the transition countries
Hirschmanian themes of social learning & change
Conclusions
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010