According to Jim Igoe, who worked with the Maasai, a critical problem with development is that:
a. Many projects are based in Western understandings that seem logical to the people who design the projects but less plausible to their recipients.
b. Many projects assume a level of education that is just not present among the project recipients.
c. Projects that are designed by local communities are often unacceptable to the people who have to fund them.
d. Western project managers are rarely accepted by project recipients in poor nations.
e. Although major donors want to fund large projects, the kinds more likely to work are small projects.
Question 2
Which development approach focuses on projects aimed at giving the poorest people in the world access to clean water, education, and health care?
a. Structural adjustment.
b. Basic human needs approaches.
c. Modernization.
d. Post-modernization.
e. Neoliberalism.
