This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluence and modernization. They demonstrate project variety, and the ecological, economic, political and social contexts within which development is attempted but seldom achieved.
Introduction -- Poverty, Inequality, and Economic Growth in Rural India
-- The Political Ecology and Economic Development of Migratory Pastoralist
Societies in Eastern Africa -- Development Strategy in Sri Lanka and a
PeopleS Alternative -- Memories of Development: The Rise and Fall of a
Participatory Project Among the Dinka, 19771981 -- Economic Development and
Social Change in Indian Agriculture: A Historical Perspective -- Investing in
Inequality: Class Formation in Upper Volta -- A Case Study of the Closing
Frontier in Brazil -- Livestock Policy and Development Ideology in Botswana
Donald W. Attwood, Thomas C. Bruneau, John G. Galaty
