We present the results of our review of some forty community-level interventions
undertaken in the developing world over the past twenty years m order to reduce
malnourishment in children. We argue that such interventions, if they are considered as
social experiments, cannot be assimilated to models of quasi-experimental method. We
propose an alternative model of experimentation, which we call "reflection-in-action", which seems to us better suited to account for the kinds ofvahdity and rigor attainable in
situations such as these.
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