People empowerment has been linked to the processes of social development in
developing societies as well as to more technologically advanced societies. This
article explores how self-help and mutual-aid concepts are exemplified by the
existence of an expanding self-help movement. The activities of self-help organiza
tions can create appropriate conditions for the actualization of people empower
ment Thus they have important consequences for the realization of developmental
objectives, i.e., on an individual, group, institutional and community level.
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