Context-Sensitive Development : : How International NGOs Operate in Myanmar / / Anthony Ware.

Focusing on Myanmar, with its perfect storm of extreme poverty, international sanctions, and egregious political repression, Anthony Ware shows how context sensitivity can help development organizations to better meet the needs of their client populations. Ware points out that, while practitioners h...

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Prologue: Burma or Myanmar? A Note on Names and Political Orientation -- Part 1 The Problem and Theory -- Part 2 Myanmar: A Historically Informed Analysis of Context -- Part 3 Context-Sensitivity in INGO Development Practice -- Afterword -- Glossary of Myanmar Terms -- List of Interview Participants -- References -- Index
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Focusing on Myanmar, with its perfect storm of extreme poverty, international sanctions, and egregious political repression, Anthony Ware shows how context sensitivity can help development organizations to better meet the needs of their client populations. Ware points out that, while practitioners have questioned universal economic prescriptions for development, they have been less rigorous in questioning the normative foundations behind their work. Though Myanmar is his case in point, he suggests key issues of perception and practice that are intrinsic to a successful development enterprise wherever it is undertaken.
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Community development Burma Societies, etc.
Economic development Burma Societies, etc.
Human rights Burma.
Humanitarian assistance Burma Societies, etc.
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Contents --
Tables and Figures --
Abbreviations --
Acknowledgments --
Preface --
Prologue: Burma or Myanmar? A Note on Names and Political Orientation --
Part 1 The Problem and Theory --
Part 2 Myanmar: A Historically Informed Analysis of Context --
Part 3 Context-Sensitivity in INGO Development Practice --
Afterword --
Glossary of Myanmar Terms --
List of Interview Participants --
References --
Index
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Acknowledgments --
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Part 1 The Problem and Theory --
Part 2 Myanmar: A Historically Informed Analysis of Context --
Part 3 Context-Sensitivity in INGO Development Practice --
Afterword --
Glossary of Myanmar Terms --
List of Interview Participants --
References --
Index
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Contents --
Tables and Figures --
Abbreviations --
Acknowledgments --
Preface --
Prologue: Burma or Myanmar? A Note on Names and Political Orientation --
Part 1 The Problem and Theory --
Part 2 Myanmar: A Historically Informed Analysis of Context --
Part 3 Context-Sensitivity in INGO Development Practice --
Afterword --
Glossary of Myanmar Terms --
List of Interview Participants --
References --
Index
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