The best book is Bryant Myers, Walking with the Poor (revised and expanded edition), 2011, Orbis Books.

John Friedmann, Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development, 1992, Blackwell.

Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999, Oxford University Press.

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ester Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, 2011, Public Affairs Books.

Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor ... And Yourself, 2009, Moody Publishers.

read Easterly and Sachs at the same time to see two very different approaches:

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.

Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, 2005, Penguin Books.

Peace, Frank Cookingham, retired evaluator of international community development

On Friday, June 27, 2014 12:30 PM, David Dunn via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

Hi all.

An old friend has asked for recommendations on:

general literature on community development? I need to get out of project-think and into a more comprehensive mode.

Any suggestions that I should pass on.

David

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