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<p><P>With this book, Eberhard Reusse channels thirty years of experience with international aid programs into the task of both diagnosing the problems afflicting these programs and formulating a possible cure. Supporting his analysis with detailed case studies of two rural development programs in Africa&#8212;the United Nations&#8217; "War on Waste" and cereal banks for small-farmer communities&#8212;Reusse reveals a system riddled with flaws. Impatient assumptions, belated and often suppressed recognition of their invalidity, and the perpetuation of unsuitable programs over decades&#8212;all are characteristic of the system. Local populations "fail" to participate in programs, or their accumulated firsthand knowledge is ignored and marginalized. Development experts make misjudgments or are adversely pressured by funding concerns. Programs are unevaluated and unaccountable to donors, perpetuating themselves long after they&#8217;re proved ineffective or inefficient. And throughout the book, Reusse demonstrates the principal systemic flaw&#58; unrealistic interventionist paradigms&#8212;that is, Western notions of Third World realities that misidentify needs for intervention&#8212;

Author

EBERHARD REUSSE

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226710143

Subjects

Economics, Philosophy, Science