<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>The best book is Bryant Myers, Walking with the Poor (revised and expanded edition), 2011, Orbis Books.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>John Friedmann, Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development, 1992, Blackwell.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal;
background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999, Oxford University Press.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ester Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, 2011, Public Affairs Books.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue,
Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor ... And Yourself, 2009, Moody Publishers.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>read Easterly and Sachs at the same
time to see two very different approaches:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, 2006, Penguin Books.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, 2005, Penguin Books.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Peace, Frank Cookingham, retired evaluator of international community development</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, June 27, 2014 12:30 PM, David Dunn via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br>
</font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7797354568"><div>Hi all.<div><br></div><div>An old friend has asked for recommendations on: </div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">general literature on community development? I need to get out of project-think and into a more comprehensive mode. </div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div>Any suggestions that I should pass on.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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