A Model Development Plan: New Strategies and Perspectives

by David H. Lempert, Kim McCarty, Craig Mitchell

Overview

Here is a comprehensive development plan written as if vital communities, indigenous peoples, women, and the environment really mattered. This alternative type of development planning goes beyond statistics to incorporate the interests of the people that live in the community. As an experiment in development education and planning, one of the authors led a group of the country's leading undergraduates into the field in Ecuador to complete an empirically based study and to prepare an alternative set of recommendations and models. A clearly written book that offers new insights for developmental specialists as well as educators and students in international development, anthropology, economics, public policy, planning, and Latin American studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275963606
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)
Lexile:	1520L (what's this?)

About the Author

David H. Lempert is an anthropologist, attorney, and consultant with degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford, and Yale. He has worked as a contractor for the United States Agency for International Development in the Philippines, a consultant on projects for legal and political reforms in Russia and Ukraine, for the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica, for the economic section of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., and on business education reform in Vietnam. He is presently an Adjunct Associate Professor at George Washington University.

Kim McCarty has worked as coordinator for the Neighborhood Revitalization Program in Minneapolis, overseeing experimental programs for revitalizing the economic and social health of the inner city.

Craig Mitchell is presently in a PhD program in the University of California, Los Angeles, as the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, in international economics.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Overview of the Model Plan
Slowing Population Growth and Community Disintegration
Governmental Reform and Community Development
Using the Full Potential of Human Resources
Macro-Economic (Financial) Strategy
Macro-Economic (Production) Strategy/Sectorial Focus
The Appropriate Role of Major Institutional Actors in Development
Changing the State of Mind
Bibliography

What People are Saying About This

^B^XBarbara D. Miller^LAssociate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs^

Refreshingly clear and direct and a great addition to the international development literature.

Barbara D. Miller Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs George Washington Un

Refreshingly clear and direct and a great addition to the international development literature.

^B^XBarbara D. Miller Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs George W

Refreshingly clear and direct and a great addition to the international development literature.

Editorial Reviews

"The comprehensive development plan describes in these pages differs from others in that it goes beyond economic and business interests to integrate cultural factors, traditions, and environmental needs." - Journal of Social Work Education

From the Publisher

Presents a plan for economic development written in 1988 by young scholars from Harvard, Brown, and the University of California, and adopted by the government of Ecuador with much publicity. Based on the principle that people and cultures are as important as contributions to the global economy, tackles issues such as slowing population growth, government reform, using the full potential of human resources, macroeconomic financial strategy, the role of major institutions, and changing the state of mind. For planners and developers. Originally written as Ecuador y El Desarollo: Nuevas Ideas, Nuevas Estratagias, Nuevas Perspectivas. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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