Development efforts rarely reach their intended objectives because aid workers too often disregard local politics and social conditions, as illustrated by case studies from Burkina Faso. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 435. . 2003. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Endangering Development: Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso
Publisher: Praeger (UK)
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0275979105
ISBN 13: 9780275979102
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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The politics of international intervention into rural areas is the subject of this insightful study. Using concrete cases drawn from fieldwork in rural Burkina Faso, Engberg-Pedersen shows how nongovernmental organizations' activities with women's groups, natural resource management projects, decentralization policies, and rural democratization advocates must enter an arena of local struggle for resources and status. He maintains that activists often seriously contradict rural people's practices and understandings of particular issues and how they should be organized. Thus, while societal conflicts and institutional contradictions are inescapable features of rural development, development assistance agents and scholars of democratization and political change in Africa largely ignore them.

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LARS ENGBERG-PEDERSEN is Head of the International Department at the Danish Association for International Co-Operation.

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