Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9503230909.C539603258-0100000@AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 09:25:06 -0700 From: mailto:MILLERK@AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU> Subject: Re: Free Trade = Free lunch To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
John wrote, > just think how
> much real food security could be bought at that price, if the money
> were earmarked for local grassroots projects.
I've just been reading Dharam Ghai's new book _Development and Environment_: one chapter based on a survey of NGOs in Zimbabwe makes it soulnd as if even the vaunted grassroots approach is more thwn a bit of a sham - the funders want positive results, so the more innovative, experimental efforts lose out to the "do what the big guys are doing even if it doesn't work" line. Can anybody substantiate (or refute) this argument elsewhere?
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