Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance (Evolving Values for a Capitalist World) - Tapa blanda

A towering achievement. It outdoes Sen and Hirschman in its reach across economics, management theory, psychology, sociology, mathematics and philosophy. The result is a coherent alternative way of seeing"" the relationship between aid organizations based in rich countries and aid recipients based in poorer ones, and some practical suggestions on how to re-engage the aid agencies more as ""helpers"" than as ""doers"". Along the way it fairly sizzles with insider insights into the workings of the World Bank."" - Robert Hunter Wade, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics ""Ellerman provides a compelling humanist understanding of how economic development aid can succeed, if only people and nations are enabled to help themselves."" - William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy

David Ellerman surveys the deep theoretical foundations for a philosophy of development - including the work of Albert Hirschman, Paolo Freire, John Dewey, and Soren Kierkegaard - and offers a clear, practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. He argues that the best strategy for development would reduce select forms of assistance and shift the locus of initiative from the would-be helpers to the doers.