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En el libro, la autora se pregunta de dónde provienen estas visiones del desarrollo, cómo son puestas en práctica en las comunidades del altiplano y cuál es su aporte al ejercicio de la ciudadanía, comparándolas con el debate actual en las ciencias sociales. Muestra el proceso que siguieron tres proyectos de desarrollo agropecuario PAMPA I, II y CECI Alpaca. Resume sus estrategias de intervención, así como los límites y las posibilidades que ofrecían los contextos locales para su despliegue. Plantea las diferencias entre las ideas, los mecanismos y resultados de la práctica del desarrollo entre los diferentes actores, resaltando los contrastes de su aplicacíon después de la Reforma Agraria entre 1980 y 1990. En este período, Bolivia tuvo como marco de los proyectos de desarrollo la Ley de Participación Popular y Ecuador, las demandas étnicas de la organizaciones indígenas apoyadas por la cooperación internacional. En el Perú el impacto de la violencia política interna negó la presencia del Estado y dificultó la intervención de los proyectos en las zonas rurales del país. La autora reflexiona junto con los propios actores sobre sus imaginarios y percepciones del desarrollo y propone un diálogo entre las diferentes visiones.

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are widely heralded as an opportunity for the poor to have greater access to information that can help them escape poverty. ICTs also provide local NGOs that work with the poor access to knowledge that can guide them in implementing better development programs. Such ideas reflect long-held notions about the role of knowledge provision as a tool for development.But as author Tanya Jakimow shows, the consequences of the "information age" are often unintended and deviate greatly from our image of an interconnected, modern world. Not only do most people remain largely excluded from ICTs, but when they do engage with these technologies, they do so in unforeseen ways. Peddlers of Information shows how local NGOs in rural India are actually using these technologies-particularly the internet-and the implications this has had for development work and ideas about poverty. Jakimow's critique of dominant views on ICTs and her discussion of class and power relations in Southern organizations is essential reading for development scholars and practitioners.

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Thinking Small tells the story of how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. And it also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, with often disastrous consequences. It is common for historians to interpret the United States’ postwar development campaigns as ill-advised attempts to impose modernity upon poorer nations. The small-scale projects that are popular today mark a retreat from that top-down, heavy-handed approach. But Daniel Immerwahr shows that community-based development is nothing new: it has been present since the origins of international development practice, existing alongside—and sometimes at the heart of—grander schemes to modernize the global South. His transnational study follows a set of strange bedfellows—the Peace Corps and the CIA, Mohandas Gandhi and Ferdinand Marcos, antipoverty activists and Cold Warriors—united by their conviction that development should not be about engineers building dams but about communities shaping their own fates. The programs they designed covered hundreds of millions of people in some sixty countries, eventually making their way back to the United States itself during the War on Poverty. Yet the hope that small communities might lift themselves up was often disappointed, as self-help gave way to crushing forms of local oppression. Thinking Small challenges those who hope to eradicate poverty to think twice about the risks as well as the benefits of community development.

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