Development With Dignity: Self-determination, Localization, and the End to Poverty

Palmer, Tom G./ McCloskey, Deirdre N. (Foreward By)/ Warner, Matt

ISBN 10: 1032135638 / ISBN 13: 9781032135632

Published by Routledge, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Development With Dignity: Self-determination, Localization, and the End to Poverty
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032135638
• ISBN 13: 9781032135632
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.88 kilograms

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Synopsis

At a time when the global development industry is under more pressure than ever before, this book argues that an end to poverty can only be achieved by prioritizing human dignity.

Unable to adequately account for the roles of culture, context, and local institutions, today’s outsider-led development interventions continue to leave a trail of unintended consequences, ranging from wasteful to even harmful. This book shows that increased prosperity can only be achieved when people are valued as self-governing agents. Social orders that recognize autonomy and human dignity unleash enormous productive energy. This in turn leads to the mobilization of knowledge-sharing that is critical to innovation and localized problem-solving. Offering a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives and specific examples from the field showing these ideas in action, this book provides NGOs, multilateral institutions, and donor countries with practical guidelines for implementing "dignity-first" development.

Compelling and engaging, with a wide range of recommendations for reforming development practice and supporting liberal democracy, this book will be an essential read for students and practitioners of international development.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

About the Author

Tom G. Palmer is executive vice president for international programs at Atlas Network, where he holds the George M. Yeager Chair for Advancing Liberty. He is also a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

Matt Warner is president of Atlas Network and the editor of Poverty and Freedom: Case Studies on Global Economic Development (2019).