Synopses & Reviews
Here is a comprehensive development plan written as if vital communities, indigenous peoples, women, and the environment really mattered. This alternative type of development planning goes beyond statistics to incorporate the interests of the people that live in the community. As an experiment in development education and planning, one of the authors led a group of the country's leading undergraduates into the field in Ecuador to complete an empirically based study and to prepare an alternative set of recommendations and models. A clearly written book that offers new insights for developmental specialists as well as educators and students in international development, anthropology, economics, public policy, planning, and Latin American studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Review
The comprehensive development plan describes in these pages differs from others in that it goes beyond economic and business interests to integrate cultural factors, traditions, and environmental needs.Journal of Social Work Education
Review
Refreshingly clear and direct and a great addition to the international development literature.Barbara D. Miller Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs George Washington University
About the Author
DAVID H. LEMPERT is an anthropologist, attorney, and consultant with degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford, and Yale.KIM McCARTY has worked as coordinator for the Neighborhood Revitalization Program in Minneapolis, overseeing experimental programs for revitalizing the economic and social health of the inner city.CRAIG MITCHELL is presently in a Ph.D. program in the University of California, Los Angeles, as the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, in international economics.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Overview of the Model Plan
Slowing Population Growth and Community Disintegration
Governmental Reform and Community Development
Using the Full Potential of Human Resources
Macro-Economic (Financial) Strategy
Macro-Economic (Production) Strategy/Sectorial Focus
The Appropriate Role of Major Institutional Actors in Development
Changing the State of Mind
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