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Participatory Development: Some Perspectives from Grassroots Experience

In: Trade, Planning and Rural Development

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  • Dharam Ghai

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In recent years, especially since the early 1970s, there has been increasing interest in participatory approaches to development. This interest is manifested both at the national and international levels and appears to be shared by individuals and institutions of widely divergent ideologies and backgrounds. At the international level, most multilateral and bilateral agencies have recognised the importance of participation both as a means and as an objective of development. Likewise, national plans in many countries pay a great deal of attention to the need for a participatory pattern of development. However, as tends to happen in situations of this sort, this growing consensus owes much to certain ambiguities in the concept of participation. Different authors and organisations give different interpretations to this concept. Often these differences are a reflection of differences over the concept of development itself.

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  • Dharam Ghai, 1990. "Participatory Development: Some Perspectives from Grassroots Experience," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Azizur Rahman Khan & Rehman Sobhan (ed.), Trade, Planning and Rural Development, chapter 6, pages 79-115, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11415-3_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11415-3_7
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