Ideas for DevelopmentOur 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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Wherever a government starts a programme or project the actual risks are compounded by the extent to which the commitment to maintain the programme or project is irreversible. The process of commitment can be lengthy, ...
Wherever a government starts a programme or project the actual risks are compounded by the extent to which the commitment to maintain the programme or project is irreversible. The process of commitment can be lengthy, ...
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... uneconomic measures and personal commitments which comprise part of the risks of the project. Resisting temptation7 Since all these disadvantages have applied in the past they can be expected to continue to apply in the future, ...
... uneconomic measures and personal commitments which comprise part of the risks of the project. Resisting temptation7 Since all these disadvantages have applied in the past they can be expected to continue to apply in the future, ...
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They involve relatively low risk and low commitment. Moreover, schemes with individual holdings exploit the drives of property ownership and individual incentive which can make productive the labour which is the most abundant unused ...
They involve relatively low risk and low commitment. Moreover, schemes with individual holdings exploit the drives of property ownership and individual incentive which can make productive the labour which is the most abundant unused ...
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By 1967, with over 500 settler families, commitment had become even harder to reverse, and the scheme continued, with cross-subsidies from an economically successful sister scheme in another Province, the Mwea Irrigation Settlement.
By 1967, with over 500 settler families, commitment had become even harder to reverse, and the scheme continued, with cross-subsidies from an economically successful sister scheme in another Province, the Mwea Irrigation Settlement.
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A third lesson emerges from the process of creeping commitment to the Scheme, starting with the first ideas of replacing the indigenous irrigation which had been destroyed [by a flood in 1919], leading to preliminary surveys and then to ...
A third lesson emerges from the process of creeping commitment to the Scheme, starting with the first ideas of replacing the indigenous irrigation which had been destroyed [by a flood in 1919], leading to preliminary surveys and then to ...
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Contents
| 1 | |
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 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ideas for Development |
| Author | Robert Chambers |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1136563431, 9781136563430 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development Nature / Ecology |
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