Development Approaches and Competing Paradigms

Fuchaka Waswa, Christine Ruth Saru Kilalo and Dominic Mwambi Mwasaru
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Fuchaka Waswa: Kenyatta University

Chapter 2 in Sustainable Community Development: Dilemma of Options in Kenya, 2014, pp 19-56 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter chronologically discusses past development approaches and competing paradigms in Kenya since independence to date. The menu of approaches provides development practitioners with insights on what may work and what may not work in the quest for sustainable community development. Further the chapter provides insight on how the dominant group (political elite) has insisted on using the approaches under interrogation to perpetually and subtly encourage the underdevelopment of the masses. By way of conclusion, the future of sustainable community development requires deliberate replacement of the “dominant paradigm” that is still elitist-driven with a more socially oriented people-driven process, in order to eradicate institutionalized poverty.

Keywords: development strategies; dominant minority; institutionalized poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137497413_2

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