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Helping People Help Themselves : From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (359 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472021765
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Helping People Help ThemselvesDDC classification:
  • 338.91/09172/4
LOC classification:
  • HC60
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Albert O. Hirschman -- Preface -- 1 Introduction &amp -- Overview -- 2 Internal &amp -- External Motivation: Beyond Homo Economicus -- 3 The Indirect Approach -- 4 Indirect Approaches: Intellectual History -- 5 Autonomy-Respecting Development Assistance -- 6 Knowledge-Based Development Assistance -- 7 Can Development Agencies Learn &amp -- Help Clients Learn? -- 8 Case Study: Assistance to the Transition Countries -- 9 Hirschmanian Themes of Social Learning &amp -- Change -- 10 Conclusions -- Appendix. Eight Thinkers on the Five Themes -- First Do: Starting from Where the Doers Are -- Second Do: Seeing through the Doers' Eyes -- First Don't: Don't Try to Impose Change on Doers -- Second Don't: Don't Give Help as Benevolence -- Third Do: Respect Autonomy of the Doers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Albert O. Hirschman -- Preface -- 1 Introduction &amp -- Overview -- 2 Internal &amp -- External Motivation: Beyond Homo Economicus -- 3 The Indirect Approach -- 4 Indirect Approaches: Intellectual History -- 5 Autonomy-Respecting Development Assistance -- 6 Knowledge-Based Development Assistance -- 7 Can Development Agencies Learn &amp -- Help Clients Learn? -- 8 Case Study: Assistance to the Transition Countries -- 9 Hirschmanian Themes of Social Learning &amp -- Change -- 10 Conclusions -- Appendix. Eight Thinkers on the Five Themes -- First Do: Starting from Where the Doers Are -- Second Do: Seeing through the Doers' Eyes -- First Don't: Don't Try to Impose Change on Doers -- Second Don't: Don't Give Help as Benevolence -- Third Do: Respect Autonomy of the Doers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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