The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development
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The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development by Maggie Black
Building dams in India, planting trees in Burkina Faso, rescuing street children in Brazil - these are images of aid and international development with which we can all identify. However, what passes for development all too often improves life for the better off while actively hurting the very people the venture was meant to support. Maggie Black exposes the hypocrisy and reveals a more accurate picture of what is happening in development's name, arguing for a process to be put inplace that trule defends the interests of poor people.Maggie Black is a writer whose previous work has focused on development issues affecting the poor and disadvantaged, such as histories of Oxfam and UNICEF (OUP 1992, 1996). This has proven to be an unexpectedly beneficial apprenticeship for a study of her great-grandfather's pioneering life in Victoria, with its themes of exclusion of local Indigenous peoples, development of farming practices, and the construction of a new civilization.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781904456636 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904456634 |
| Title | The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development |
| Author | Maggie Black |
| Series | No-Nonsense Guides |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Internationalist Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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