Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325) and index.
Contents
Introduction & overview -- Internal & external motivation: beyond homo economicus -- The indirect approach -- Indirect approaches: intellectual history -- Autonomy-respecting development assistance -- Knowledge-based development assistance -- Can development agencies learn & help clients learn? -- Case study: assistance to the transition countries -- Hirschmanian themes of social learning & change -- Conclusions.
Summary
Surveys the theoretical foundations for a philosophy of development - including the work of Albert Hirschman, Paolo Freire, John Dewey, and Soren Kierkegaard. The author offers a practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. He shifts the locus of initiative from the would-be helpers to the doers.