Poverty, Politics and Projects under Community Participation in Zambia

Alain Janvry, Hideyuki Nakagawa and Elisabeth Sadoul

Chapter 10 in Community, Market and State in Development, 2010, pp 148-171 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Among the many seminal contributions made by Yujiro Hayami to our understanding of international agricultural development, his research on the rural community has been hailed by the profession for its unique insights (Hayami, 1988). This is in part because of the distinct approach he followed for this research, analyzing in great detail village microcosms over long periods of time to extract generic propositions about the role of the community in development. He labeled it as the approach of a “bonsai economist.” According to him, “the bonsai lover makes a lifelong effort to perfect the miniature shape of a tree to reflect the spirit of the universe” (Hayami and Kikuchi, 2000). As with the effort of patience and abstraction of the bonsai lover, his work has been grounded in a lifelong effort to observe and document the transformation of particular rural communities, while projecting his observations into broad conceptual frameworks capturing the role of the community in development. Following the bonsai principle, reality is simplified to the maximum. No unnecessary embellishments: it is a parsimonious model, capturing the essence of what matters in order to understand the whole.

Keywords: Community Participation; Presidential Election; School Enrollment; Household Asset; Social Investment Fund (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230295018_10

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