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Clinton, Charles A. – Human Organization, 1978
Data from Shiloh County's effort to improve quality of life for its residents lead to three conclusions: political intervention can convert private sector growth into a platform for rural development, exchanges between community and schools are not difficult to understand, and the ethnographer has a function in discovering local contexts to which…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Community Development, Dropouts
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Okpala, Donatus C. I. – Human Organization, 1980
The paper documents and analyzes the nature of community self-help efforts in rural areas of Anambra State, Nigeria. It notes that community perceptions of development are based on a social and economic yardstick and differ from the prevailing public policy on agricultural development. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Development, Community Planning, Developing Nations