A Model Development Plan: New Strategies and Perspectives Contributor(s): Lempert, David H. (Author), McCarty, Kim (Author), Mitchell, Craig (Author) |
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ISBN: 0275963608 ISBN-13: 9780275963606 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: 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. This is a clearly written text 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
Dewey: 338.9 |
Lexile Measure: 1520 |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 320 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |