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Poverty, Politics and Projects under Community Participation in Zambia

In: Community, Market and State in Development

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  • Alain Janvry
  • Hideyuki Nakagawa
  • Elisabeth Sadoul

Abstract

Among the many seminal contributions made by Yujiro Hayami to our understanding of international agricultural development, his research on the rural community has been hailed by the profession for its unique insights (Hayami, 1988). This is in part because of the distinct approach he followed for this research, analyzing in great detail village microcosms over long periods of time to extract generic propositions about the role of the community in development. He labeled it as the approach of a “bonsai economist.” According to him, “the bonsai lover makes a lifelong effort to perfect the miniature shape of a tree to reflect the spirit of the universe” (Hayami and Kikuchi, 2000). As with the effort of patience and abstraction of the bonsai lover, his work has been grounded in a lifelong effort to observe and document the transformation of particular rural communities, while projecting his observations into broad conceptual frameworks capturing the role of the community in development. Following the bonsai principle, reality is simplified to the maximum. No unnecessary embellishments: it is a parsimonious model, capturing the essence of what matters in order to understand the whole.

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  • Alain Janvry & Hideyuki Nakagawa & Elisabeth Sadoul, 2010. "Poverty, Politics and Projects under Community Participation in Zambia," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Keijiro Otsuka & Kaliappa Kalirajan (ed.), Community, Market and State in Development, chapter 10, pages 148-171, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29501-8_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230295018_10
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