Title: Ideas for development /
Authors: Chambers, Robert, 1932-
Publisher: Earthscan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Economic development.; Sustainable development.; Rural development
Abstract: "In Ideas for Development, Robert Chambers, one of the critical optimists of international development, points to the scope that all development actors have to find good things to do. He argues that practical potentials can be found in ideas and aspects of development that have previously been overlooked, undervalued or misunderstood. Each chapter presents and reviews one of his earlier writings, examines subsequent and contemporary experience, and then derives a wealth of conclusions and implications for the future.
Contents: Words and ideas : commitment, continuity and irreversibility -- Aid and administrative capacity -- Procedures, principles and power -- Participation : review, reflections and future -- PRA, participation and going to scale -- Behaviour, attitudes and beyond -- For the future.