Book Review:Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons from AID and World Bank Experiences.;Rural Development: Putting the Last First

1987 ◽  
Vol - (31) ◽  
pp. 11-12
Author(s):  
Susan H. Lees
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Development Projects

Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons from AID and World Bank Experiences

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
Eileen ◽  
Len Berry ◽  
Elliott R. Morss ◽  
David D. Gow
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Development Projects

‘ARE YOU PLANTING TREES OR ARE YOU PLANTING PEOPLE?’ SQUATTER RESISTANCE AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE MAKING OF A KENYAN POSTCOLONIAL POLITICAL ORDER (c. 1963–78)

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARA MOSKOWITZ
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
International Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article examines squatter resistance to a World Bank-funded forest and paper factory project. The article illustrates how diverse actors came together at the sites of rural development projects in early postcolonial Kenya. It focuses on the relationship between the rural squatters who resisted the project and the political elites who intervened, particularly President Kenyatta. Together, these two groups not only negotiated the reformulation of a major international development program, but they also worked out broader questions about political authority and political culture. In negotiating development, rural actors and political elites decided how resources would be distributed and they entered into new patronage-based relationships, processes integral to the making of the postcolonial political order.

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