Contesting Development

Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia

By Patrick Barron; Michael Woolcock; Rachael Diprose
(Yale University Press, Hardcover, 9780300126310, 384pp.)

Publication Date: January 2011

Categories: Developing Countries, International Relations - Trade & Tariffs, Asia - Southeast Asia

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This pathbreaking book analyzes a highly successful participatory development program in Indonesia, exploring its distinctive origins and design principles and its impacts on local conflict dynamics and social institutions.




About the Author

Patrick Barron, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, was for seven years the manager of World Bank’s Conflict and Development program in Indonesia. Rachael Diprose, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, has worked in development research, policy, and programming around the world. Michael Woolcock is senior social scientist, Development Research Group, World Bank.

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