Development Poverty and Politics: Putting Communities in the Driver's Seat (Routledge Studies in Development and Society)

by Ashna Mathema (Contributor), Ashna Mathema (Contributor), Richard Martin (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2011

  $61.71

  Top down . . . bottom up . . . what works? This book explores development from the
  perspective of the poor. Who are they? What lives do they live? What matters to
  them? And most importantly, what can they do about it?

  Martin and Mathema debate how people can be given legitimate control of their
  own environment, and how governments can work with them. How do communities
  and conditions drive behavior? What interventions are appropriate and how can we
  approach development imaginatively?

  This is not about usurping governance - but revisiting structures that the developed
  world has come to accept, and placing the power of decision in the hands of the
  people it affects.

  Nor it is about money . . . it's about people, and about how we can make our world
  work for everyone.
  

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $158.94

  Offering practical examples, this book helps practitioners to apply the insights of how best to pursue a bottom-up approach to development in their own work, while also helping theoreticians and students to develop a strong analytical framework on the subject.