A recent review is GranGuy (1983) ‘Learning from Development Success: Some Lessons from Contemporary Case Histories’, Working Paper No.9 free from NASPAA, 1120 G St. N.W., 520, Washington DC 20005.
2.
A longer discussion of these issues can be found in my (1983) Development by People: Citizen Construction of a Just World (Praeger), chapters 5 and 9–11. See also RobertsonA.F. (1984) People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development (Cambridge).
3.
RitchieD.G. (1981) ‘Staffing Implications of the Bank's Future Operational Product’ (IBRD, unpublished).
4.
My idea of the best 2,000 is the bibliographical appendix of my (1983) Development By People (Praeger). A guide to current reference tools and the very best new literature appears in a regular review column beginning in the July 1985 issue of World Development..
5.
IBRD (1984) Toward Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, p.14. This paper follows the more widely known Berg report of IBRD (1981) Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa..
6.
A lengthy critique of the Bank's African policy, the 1981 Berg report, forms the entire issue of JDS Sussex Bulletin, January 1983 (Vol 14, 1). There have since been counterattacks by Berg's colleagues at the University of Michigan and at least 5–10 other critical reviews of the Berg report in academic journals.
7.
Toward Sustainable Development (Note 5) p.25.
8.
Ibid., pp.40 and 44.
9.
A subject that needs reflection and not humorous dismissal. See inter alia, GranGuy, ed. (1979) Zaire: The Political Economy of Underdevelopment (Praeger); David Gould (1980) Bureaucratic Corruption and Underdevelopment in the Third World: The Case of Zaire (Pergamon).
10.
These papers are IBRD (1984) ‘The Future Operations of the Bank’ (draft, May, unpublished) and IBRD (1984) Institutional Development in Africa: A Review of World Bank Project Experiences (Report 3085, May, 2 volumes, unpublished).
11.
‘Future Operations’, (Note 10) p.17.
12.
A recent survey of these themes is HayterTeresaWatsonCatherine (1985) Aid: Rhetoric and Reality (Pluto) and a detailed case study is Walden Bello, et al. (1982) Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines (Institute for Food and Development Policy). There are dozens of books, articles, and dissertations in this vein on countries or projects in all regions.
13.
‘Future Operations’ (Note 10) p.40.
14.
Ibid., p.v.
15.
Ibid., p.19.
16.
Ibid., p.xiv.
17.
Ibid., p.64.
18.
Ibid., p.28.
19.
Institutional Development in Africa (Note 10) Vol. 1, p. 86.
20.
An illustration of this on the IMF in Zaire is chapter 5 of Development By People (Note 2).
21.
See Institutional Development in Africa (Note 10), Vol. 2, pp.1–38.
22.
Ibid., Vol. 1, p.83.
23.
Indeed to admit that the single discipline social scientist of any sort is inappropriate for the study and practice of development would be to delegitimize the stranglehold of capitalist economists over world system agencies. The Bank is full of just economists.
24.
‘Future Operations’, (Note 10) p.52.
25.
To begin such study on countries in the North: HorvatBranco (1982) The Political Economy of Socialism (M.E. Sharpe); Benjamin Barber (1984) Strong Democracy (University of California Press); and Henk Thomas and Chris Logan (1982) Mondragon: An Economic Analysis (George Allen & Unwin). For countries of the South, see Note 4.
26.
A good readable critique of positivism and introduction to critical thinking is HammettMichael (1984) Ethics, Politics, and International Social Science Research: From Critique to Praxis (University of Hawaii Press).
27.
From Longmans UK in an inexpensive paperback.
28.
From the Institute for the Study of Human Issues (ISHI) in Philadelphia.
29.
From University of California Press.
30.
For example, John Marcum on the 1975 congressional debate over Angola.
31.
For example, the activities of the Indochina Resource Center, 1971–75.
32.
Adrian Adams' work is in HeyerJudith eds (1981) Rural Development in Tropical Africa (St. Martins) and in African Affairs (1979), 78, 313: pp.451–479. Fugelsang's most recent book is (1982) About Understanding: Ideas and Observations on Cross-Cultural Communication (Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation).
33.
Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara (1984) Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico (Routledge & Kegan Paul).
34.
Heyer (Note 32) is the best way to start sampling.
35.
To begin study of the FSR approach see ShanerW.W. (1982) Farming Systems Research and Development (Westview); William Whyte (1981) Participatory Approaches to Agricultural Research and Development (Cornell Rural Development Committee); and MatlonPeter (1984) Coming Full Circle: Farmer's Participation in the Development of Technology (International Development Research Centre in Ottawa).
36.
From EicherCarl (1985) ‘Agricultural Research for African Development: Problems and Priorities for 1985–2000’.
37.
To contact the nearest regional team write to ICAE at 29 Prince Arthur Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 1B2. ICAE's Participatory Research Group offers a newsletter, a recent bibliography, and a number of paperbacks, notably recent research from India. Also important is VerhagenKoenraad (1984) Co-Operation for Survival: An Analysis of an Experiment in Participatory Research and Planning with Small Farmers in Sri Lanka and Thailand (Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam).
38.
Consider, for example, the tepary beans grown by the Tepago Indians in Arizona and discussed by Vietmeyer in the January 1985Audubon..
