This book offers the brief biographies of ten dedicated men, of seven nationalities, who have introduced imaginative, easily applicable technologies to people of rural South, Southeast and Northeast Asia. Their unifying philosophy is that sustained social and economic progress can be achieved only through self-help. Includes a man in India planting forests, an Indonesian engineer developing water and fuel resources, an American missionary evolving a system of slope farming in the Philippines, and a Bangladeshi professor of economics organizing a banking system for the poor and landless in his country. Offers insight into the role of micro-economic programs in overall national developmental planning, and illustrates the need to build upon traditional patterns and strengthen the concept of self-help.
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The book is impressive both for its important content and its high literary quality.>>>> (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
An accessible and engaging introduction to some fundamental truths regarding the significance of individual initiative and grass roots organization in Asia's quest for equitable development.>>>> (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
It will be very useful to those interested in rural development in third world countries.>>>> (Sage Publications )
The book makes an important contribution by recording and commending the contributions of leaders of Asian rural development.>>>> (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
The book makes an important contribution by recording and commending the contributions of leaders of Asian rural development. (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
The book is impressive both for its important content and its high literary quality. (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
An accessible and engaging introduction to some fundamental truths regarding the significance of individual initiative and grass roots organization in Asia's quest for equitable development. (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
It will be very useful to those interested in rural development in third world countries. (Sage Publications )
An accessible and engaging introduction to some fundamental truths regarding the significance of individual initiative and grass roots organization in Asia's quest for equitable development.>>>> (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
It will be very useful to those interested in rural development in third world countries.>>>> (Sage Publications )
The book makes an important contribution by recording and commending the contributions of leaders of Asian rural development.>>>> (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
The book makes an important contribution by recording and commending the contributions of leaders of Asian rural development. (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
The book is impressive both for its important content and its high literary quality. (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
An accessible and engaging introduction to some fundamental truths regarding the significance of individual initiative and grass roots organization in Asia's quest for equitable development. (The Journal Of Asian Studies )
It will be very useful to those interested in rural development in third world countries. (Sage Publications )
About the Author
Mae Handy Esterline is Editor of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation of the Philippines. She is also the author of They Changed Their Worlds: Nine Women of Asia (UPA, 1987) and the co-author of ^IHow the Dominoes Fell: Southeast Asia in Perspective, Second Edition, (UPA, 1990).
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