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Summary
Summary
This volume addresses the social and practical considerations involved in the design and implementation of effective rural development projects. Contributors stress the need to take account of the socio-cultural characteristics of the people of an area under development; their papers provide guiding principles toward incorporating sociological variables into the design of development projects, and describe component studies of the social organization of productive systems, typology of development projects stages in the productive cycle, and information on the role of the World Bank.
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Presented here is a powerful case for rethinking rural development projects. Editor Cernea provides an excellent overview of the issues in the introductory chapter as well as in editor's notes for each section of the book. The volume itself deals with either a set of projects, i.e., irrigation, settlements, livestock; or sociological issues, i.e., evaluation, citizen participation, data collection. The importance of integrating sociological variables and analysis into rural development project planning, implementation, and evaluation is beginning to mature in organizations such as the World Bank, AID, and ADC. This book, along with Paul Streeten's First Things First: Meeting Basic Human Needs in the Developing Countries (CH, Jul '82), provides significant documentation for those who either practice or study rural development and planned change and who are concerned with the social issues surrounding large-scale development projects. Graduate readership.-A.A. Hickey, Western Carolina University
