Article is example of culture of development has permeated writing in the field. Authors found cultural constraints, cultural resistances. No real checks and balances donors hold purse-strings. Officers elected for 3 yr terms and held accountable for administration of finances. Municipal councils to elicit, hear, recommend and evaluate development projects to state development units.
Communities suggest projects.
Such plans create political structures that reach the countryside. Recruits people into systems of control, or extends control. Imposed solutions lead to problems. Knowledge flows down not up . Cash products get priority over subsistence products important to women.