TY  - BOOK
AU  - Annis,Sheldon
AU  - Barbieri,William M.
AU  - Breslin,Patrick
AU  - Butler Flora,Cornelia
AU  - Chapin,Mac
AU  - Cox,Stephen
AU  - Dorfman,Ariel
AU  - Flora,Jan L.
AU  - Hakim,Peter
AU  - Healy,Kevin
AU  - Hirschman,Albert O.
AU  - Michaels O’Laughlin,Carol
AU  - Palmer,Paula R.
AU  - Podesta,Bruno
AU  - Rehnfeldt,Maria
AU  - Rojas,Humberto
AU  - Scurrah,Martin J.
AU  - Smith,Robert J.
AU  - Tendler,Judith
AU  - Vetter,Stephen
AU  - Villareal,Norma
AU  - Zorn,Elayne
TI  - Direct to the Poor: Grassroots Development in Latin America 
SN  - 9781555871185
U1  - 362.5/83098 23//eng/20230721eng
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Economic assistance, Domestic
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Poor
KW  - Transfer payments
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: What Is Grassroots Development' --; PART I The Idea of Social Energy --; 1 The Principle of Conservation and Mutation of Social Energy --; PART 2 Social Energy and Uncommon Individuals --; 2 Portrait of a Peasant Leader: Ramon Aybar --; 3 Blindness and Vision in Jamaica --; PART 3 Processes of Collective Action --; 4 Lake Titicaca's Campesino-Controlled Tourism --; 5 Indian Colonization in Paraguay: What Is Success? --; 6 Community Participation in Rural Water Supply --; 7 Conservation Kuna-Style --; PART 4 Organizations and Making Money --; 8 What to Think About Cooperatives: A Guide from Bolivia --; 9 Community Stores in Rural Colombia: Organizing the Means of Consumption --; 10 The Experience of Worker Self-Management in Peru and Chile --; PART 5 Investing in Culture --; 11 The Technology of Self-Respect: Cultural Projects Among Aymara and Quechua Indians --; 12 Wandering on the Boundaries of Development --; 13 Self-History and Self-Identity in Talamanca, Costa Rica --; PART 6 The Question of Scale --; 14 From Field to Factory: Vertical Integration in Bolivia --; 15 Can Small-Scale Development Be Large-Scale Policy? --; Selected Readings on Grassroots Development --; Contributors; restricted access
N2  - The book explores an approach to economic and social development that may be appealing if for no other reason than its simplicity: namely, that the best way to help poor people is to give them money
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685858568
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685858568
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685858568/original
ER  -