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Direct To The Poor: Grassroots Development In Latin America
Direct To The Poor: Grassroots Development In Latin America
By Sheldon Annis and Peter Hakim
Lynne Rienner, 1988, 226 pp

A collection of articles that emerged from the experience of the Inter-American Foundation, a U.S. government agency that supports self-help efforts by the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean to mobilize through collective action. Taken together, they illuminate a region in change, in large part because it is becoming more organized at all levels.

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