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Helping People Help Themselves

December 19, 2012 by admin

The full title to this book is: Helping People Help Themselves: From
the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance. The book is an intellectual analysis, giving a full history of the relevant ideas, of the various modes of “helping” in general and development assistance in particular.

Filed Under: Development Tagged With: Development aid, Helper-doer relation, Intellectual history, Post-socialist transition, World Bank

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