CURRICULUM VITAE

DAVID D. GOW

Elliott School of International Affairs

George Washington University

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Suite 501E

Washington, DC 20052

and

Department of Anthropology

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EDUCATION

1976 Ph.D. in Development Studies (sociology and anthropology)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

1971 M.A. in Ibero-American Studies (sociology and anthropology)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

1964 M.A. in English

University of Aberdeen

Scotland

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Edgar P. Baker Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs

Elliott School of International Affairs

George Washington University

(September 1,1996 - present)

As director of the International Development Studies Program for the past 12 years, my

responsibilities have included the following:

C Provide overall direction to the program, and work closely with the Dean s Office

and the IDS Advisory Committee.

C Teach two multidisciplinary courses on the theory and practice of development to

graduate students in the program, as well as teach related graduate courses in

anthropology.

C Advise students in the program, as well as other students, both graduate and

undergraduate, interested in anthropology and/or development.

C Identify development professionals based in DC interested in teaching courses

that complement present GW offerings.

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C Help students to find internships and employment in the DC area.

C Collaborate with the Organization of International Development (OID),

previously known as the Overseas Development Network), the GW student

organization for those interested in development

C Collaborate with various groups and institutions in Colombia, sharing research

results, undertaking collaborative research, participating in workshops, and

teaching. Also involved in trying to find financial support for the ongoing peace

process.

Associate Research Scholar

School of International and Public Affairs

Columbia University

(September 1994 - June 1996)

As development-practitioner-in-residence, major responsibilities included the following:

C Taught a two-course sequence to graduate students on project management in the

Third World. The first course looked at the broader development context in

which projects occurs, whereas the second course, a workshop in applied project

management, offered students the opportunity to practice what they had learned in

a more realistic setting.

C Advised students in the Economic and Political Development concentration of the

Masters in International Affairs offered by the School of International and Public

Affairs.

* Worked with various international development institutions in New York to

identify potential assignments for teams of graduate students.

Adjunct Professor

Department of Anthropology

George Washington University

(September 1994 - May 1996)

Major responsibilities included the following:

C Taught graduate courses on various aspects of development, such as economic

anthropology, anthropology of development, and research methods in

development.

* Advised graduate students in development anthropology and international

development studies.

Consultant to the World Bank

Washington, DC

(March 1993 - June 1994)

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Major responsibilities included the following:

C Prepared a study on participation and local government to be included as part of

the World Bank's ongoing study of participation and development.

C Prepared a selective assessment of the first phase of the World Bank-supported

Decentralization and Regional Development project in Mexico and assist in the

appraisal of the second phase, with particular focus on the agricultural and

productive components to be designed and implemented in the states of Chiapas

and Oaxaca.

C Prepared a Country Environmental Strategy Paper for Uganda to be used in

guiding the World Bank's environmental and macroeconomic policies for the

country.

Senior Associate and Coordinator of the Africa Program

World Resources Institute (WRI)

Washington, DC (1991 - 1992)

World Resources Institute is a non-profit organization which does applied research on a variety

of environmental issues, both overseas and in the United States.

Major responsibilities included the following:

C Coordinated and managed the research and technical service activities of a staff of

five responsible for WRI's work in Africa.

C Coordinated and served as liaison with the Africa Bureau of the US Agency for

International Development (USAID) and other potential funders of research,

including the World Bank and the German government.

C Coordinated ongoing and developed new activities related to policy research,

national environmental planning, and natural resource management in Africa.

Senior Forestry Officer (Programming)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Forestry Department

Rome (1990 - 1991)

Major responsibilities included the following:

C Incorporated emerging policy issues into the biannual Program of Work and

Budget for the Forestry Department, and also into the medium-term action plan of

FAO.

C Analyzed and formulated comments from a rural development, social science

perspective on important documents prepared within the department, as well as

the Tropical Forestry Action Plan.

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C Developed guidelines for the assessment of the institutional dimensions and social

impacts of forestry projects, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota,

the Oxford Forestry Institute, the World Bank, and the United Nations

Environmental Program.

C Collaborated with WRI in the organization of a regional workshop for non-

governmental organizations held in Bangkok to discuss the issues and problems

associated with community-based forestry activities in Asia.

Senior Professional Staff Member

Development Alternatives, Inc.(DAI)

Washington, DC (1976-1990)

DAI is a private development consulting company that undertakes both short and long-term

assignments in various parts of the world, often under contract to the United States Agency for

International Development (USAID).

Over a period of 15 years with DAI, I undertook a variety of applied activities in both Latin

America and Africa related to the environment, natural resource management, and sustainable

development. These activities included: policy formulation and planning; applied research on

development issues; and project design, implementation, and management.

Major activities undertaken included the following:

C Carried out short-term assignments in both Francophone and Anglophone Africa -

- ranging from agricultural research in Mali, to institutional analysis in Rwanda,

to community forestry in Zambia.

C Worked long-term as manager in Congo (then Zaire) of a 10-person technical

assistance team on a large agricultural production and marketing project.

C Helped organize and facilitate various workshops dealing with a variety of topics:

non-governmental organizations and agroforestry in Haiti; agricultural

sustainability in Pakistan; and national strategies for community forestry in

Zambia.

C Wrote and edited a multitude of technical reports on topics ranging from animal

traction in Niger to a national environmental policy in Uganda; edited a volume

on integrated rural development; and published articles in such professional

journals as Human Organization, World Development, and the Canadian

Journal of Development Studies.

COURSES

Courses taught include the following:

* Anthropology of development

* Anthropology of Latin America

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* Anthropology of development institutions

* Anthropology of the development project

* Anthropology, natural resources, and the environment

* Comparative economic systems

* IDS Cornerstone

* IDS Capstone

* Project management

* Qualitative research methods in development

* Social Capital, Civil Society, and Anthropology

* Theory and Practice of Development

MA THESES SUPERVISED

Beirouk, Shelley Wagner

1998 The Saharawis: Refugee Women, Education and Nationalism in Exile. (IDS

Program.)

Todd, James Eugene

1998 Intersections of Development, Environmentalism and Tourism in Yucat n: The

Production of (New) Space(s) through Conservation Initiatives. (Anthropology

Program.)

Adams, Lee Anne

1999 Community Organization in Ba ado Tacumb : A Vehicle for Social Change?

(IDS Program.)

Kaminskis, Marian

2000 Development Anthropology, Development, and Academia: Is Integration

Possible? (Anthropology Program.)

Salisbury, Margaret

2002 The Quebradeira Social Movement in Rural Northeastern Brazil: The Reciprocal

Relationship of Women and the Babacu Palm Towards Sustainable Development?

Balenger, Sally

2006 Re-Defining Sexual Trafficking: Dominican women, Agency, and Exploitation in

Transnational Prostitution

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Previous Research

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When undertaking my dissertation research in the early 1970s, my interests focused on

the role of religion and culture in the process of social and political change in the Andes of

Southern Peru. During my period with Development Alternatives, I was actively involved in four

major applied research projects, all comparative and interdisciplinary. For two of them, one

dealing with the role of local organizations in rural development and the other with the

contributions of social soundness analysis to development, I served as both manager and

principal investigator. For the remaining two, one a study of the administrative and managerial

problems encountered in implementing integrated rural development projects and the other the

sustainable use of fragile lands, I served as a researcher.

Recent Research

Since 1995, I have been conducting research in Colombia on several aspects of local

development, particularly development planning and discourse, alternative development,

ethnicity and representation, the role of culture, refugees and disasters, the roles of development

institutions, all within the broader context of modernity and globalization. As the economic and

political situation

has steadily deteriorated, my research has expanded to include the cultivation of opium poppies,

the symbiotic relationships with guerrilla forces, and the growing involvement in the peace

process. The research was undertaken at several sites, both rural and urban, in the department of

Cauca, located in southwestern Colombia, the department with the largest concentration of

indigenous people in the country. The book that resulted from this research, Countering

Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination, was published by Duke

University Press in May 2008..

Research Grants

From 1995, with the exception of 2003 when I had a sabbatical, I have spent part of each

summer in Colombia conducting research, supported by summer research grants from the

School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 1996 and from the Elliott

School in 1997, 1998, and 1999. In 2000, I took a leave of absence in the spring semester and

spent six months in Colombia, partially supported by an International Collaborative Research

Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The objective of this

research project, entitled Transformations in Colombia -- Ethnic Politics since the 1970s: A

Plan for Collaborative Research and Dialogue, was to establish an international and

interethnic dialogue among international researchers, national anthropologists, and indigenous

investigators. The research focused on the changing face of ethnic politics in Cauca. In July

2000, we organized a symposium at the IX Congreso de Antropolog a en Colombia at which we

presented the preliminary results of our collaborative research. The revised papers have recently

been published in Spanish by the University of Cauca, with the title Retornando la Mirada:

Una Investigaci n Colaborativa Inter tnica Sobre el Cauca a la Entrada al Milenio. The

grant was renewed for an additional year. In 2002, I was awarded a grant from the GW

University Facilitating Fund to support the writing of a book.

Present Research

Contemporary Colombia offers unique possibilities for the study of processes of social,

political, and cultural change. The 1991 Constitution created the conditions for broader political

participation at municipal, provincial, and national levels. It mandated the right to establish

alternative political spaces and the right for previously excluded groups to be included in the

political process. In 2000, the Social Alternative Block in Cauca, a coalition of forces posing an

alternative to the traditional political leaders, emerged in a coalition that included the indigenous

movement, other indigenous organizations, social movements, political parties, and popular

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organizations. It succeeded in electing Taita Floro Tunubal, a member of the Guambiano ethnic

group, as the first indigenous departmental governor in the history of Colombia.

The objective of my research is to answer a series of related questions about Tunubal s

governorship. First, what was the process by which he was elected? What he did he accomplish

during his governorship and how he did he do it? What difference did his government make?

What motivates people like Tunubal, members of his cabinet, and other supporters, to persevere

in their struggle to improve conditions in Cauca against what is sometimes life-threatening, if not

deadly opposition? I received a Fulbright Award for the spring semester of 2007 at the

University of Cauca, where I taught in the new doctoral program in anthropology, the first in

Colombia, while continuing this research. I continue the process of reviewing the voluminous

documentation I have collected over the past five years as well as my background reading in

political science, sociology, and history. I also submitted a manuscript chapter entitled En

Minga por El Cauca: Alternative Government in Colombia, 2001-2003 for publication in a

forthcoming edited volume.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2008 Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination.

Durham:

Duke University Press.

1985 Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons from AID and World Bank

Experience. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. (A volume coedited with Elliott Morss,

in which I coauthored three chapters.)

2005 Desde Afuera y Desde Adentro: Planificaci n Ind gena Como Contra-Desarrollo.In

Retornando la Mirada: Una Investigaci n Colaborativa Inter tnica Sobre el Cauca a

la Entrada al Milenio, edited by Joanne Rappaport. Pp. 65-96. Popay n: Editorial

Universidad del Cauca.

2004 Foreign Aid: Necessary but Needs Fixing. In Divided Diplomacy and the Next

Administration: Conservative and Liberal Alternatives, edited by Henry R. Nau and

David Shambaugh. Pp 83-89. Washington, DC: The George Washington University. (Co-

authored.)

2002 Anthropology and Development: Evil Twin or Moral Narrative? Human Organization

61: 299-313.

2002 The Indigenous Public Voice: The Multiple Idioms of Modernity in Native Cauca. In

Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America,

edited by Jean Jackson and Kay Warren, pp. 47-80 Texas: Texas University Press. (With

Joanne Rappaport.)

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1998 Pueden los Subalternos Planificar? Etnicidad y Desarrollo en Cauca, Colombia. In

Modernidad, Identidad y Desarrollo: Contrucci n de Sociedad y Recreaci n

Cultural en Contextos de Modernizaci n, edited by Mar a Luc a Sotomayor. Pp. 185-

224. Bogot : Instituto Colombiano de Antropolog a.

1997a Can the Subaltern Plan? Ethnicity and Development in Cauca, Colombia. Urban

Anthropology 26(3-4):243-292. (Refereed version of 1998 chapter.)

1997b Cambio Dirigido, Movimiento Ind gena y Estereotipos del Indio: El Estado Colombiano

y la Reubicaci n de los Nasa. In Antropolog a en la Modernidad, edited by Ma.

Victoria Uribe and Eduardo Restrepo. Pp. 361-399. Bogot : Instituto Colombiano de

Antropolog a. (With Joanne Rappaport.)

1996 The Anthropology of Development Discourse, Agency, and Culture. Anthropological

Quarterly 69(3):165-175.

1995 Anthropology, the Environment, and the Third World: Principles, Power, and Practice. In

Global Ecosystem: Creating Public Policy Options Though Anthropological

Perspectives, edited by Pamela Puntenney. Pp. 59-72. Bulletin of the National

Association of Practicing Anthropologists. Washington, DC: American Anthropological

Association.

1994 Planning as a Rational Act: Constructing Environmental Policy in Uganda. Working

Paper No. 181. Boston: Boston University, African Studies Center.

1993 Doubly Damned: Dealing with Power and Praxis in Development Anthropology. Human

Organization 52(4):380-397.

1992a Poverty and Natural Resources: Principles for Environmental Management and

Sustainable Development. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 12 (1/2):49-

65.

1992b Forestry for Sustainable Development: The Social Dimension. Unasylva, Vol. 43, No.

169, pp.41-45.

1991 Collaboration in Development Consulting: Stooges, Hired Guns, or Musketeers? Human

Organization 50(1):1-15.

1990a Learning from Experience: Social Analysis for the Nineties. Development

Anthropology Network 8(1):11-16 (Coauthor).

1990b Three Faces of Sustainable Development: Institutions, People, and Resources. In Low

Input Sustainable Yield Systems: Implications for the World's Rangelands, edited

by R. P. Cincotta, G.K. Perrier, C.W. Gay, and J. Tiedeman. Pp. 13-35. Proceedings of

the 1990 International Rangeland Development Symposium. Logan, VT: Utah State

University, Department of Range Science.

1990c Rapid Rural Appraisal: Social Science as Investigative Journalism. In Methods for

Social Analysis for Projects in Developing Countries, edited by K. Finsterbusch, J.

Ingersoll, and L. Llewellyn. Pp. 143-163. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

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1990d Development Anthropology: In Quest of a Practical Vision. In The Human Dimension

of Development: Perspectives from Anthropology, edited by H.M. Mathur. Pp. 161-

172. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. (Reprint of 1988 article.)

1989a Promoting Rural Growth: People, Places, and Priorities.In Sub-Saharan Conference on

Market Towns and Rural Growth: Economic and Social Linkages. Pp. 23-53.

Yamoussoukro, C te d'Ivoire: RHUDO/AID and the Government.

1989b Development of Fragile Lands: An Integrated Approach Reconsidered. In Fragile Lands

of Latin America: Strategies for Sustainable Development, edited by John

Browder. Pp. 25-43. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

1988a Development Anthropology: In Quest of a Practical Vision. Development Anthropology

Network 6(2):13-17.

1988b The Notorious Nine: Critical Problems in Project Implementation. World Development

16(12):1399-1418. (With Elliott Morss).

1988c The Provision of Technical Assistance: A View from the Trenches. Canadian Journal

of Development Studies 9(1): 81-103.

1987 Sustainable Development of Fragile Lands: The Case of Extensive Livestock Production

in Africa. Agricultural Administration and Extension 24(1):3-32.

1985a Decentralization and Participation: Concepts in Need of Implementation Strategies. In

Implementing Rural Development Projects, pp. 107-147. (With Jerry VanSant).

1985b Ineffective Information Systems. In Implementing Rural Development Projects, pp.

175-197. (With Elliott Morss).

1985c Sustaining Project Benefits. In Implementing Rural Development Projects, pp. 217-

243. (With Elliott Morss and Christopher Nordlinger).

1983a Participation in Community Development. Journal of Community Action 1(6):47-51.

(With Jerry VanSant -- a shorter version of our 1982 article).

1983b Technical Assistance Alternatives for Rural Development: Beyond the Bypass Model.

Canadian Journal of Development Studies 4(2): 221-240. (With George Honadle and

Jerry Silverman).

1983c Beyond the Rhetoric of Rural Development Participation: Can It Be Done? World

Development 2(5):427-446. (With Jerry VanSant).

1983d Problemas Cr ticos de la Ejecuci n: Definici n, Manifestaci n,y Alivio (Critical

Implementation Problems: Definition, Manifestation, and Alleviation). In Capacitaci n

en Administraci n de Proyectos: Problemas de Implementaci n de Proyectos, edited

by Ernesto F. Betancourt. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Economic Development

Institute. (With Elliott Morss -- a Spanish version of our 1981 consulting report.)

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1982 Managing Staff to Promote Participation. Rural Development Participation Review

3(2):4-6. (With Jerry VanSant and Thomas Armor).

1981 Local Organization, Participation, and Rural Development: Results from a Seven-Country

Study. Rural Development Participation Review 2(2):3-7. (With Elliott Morss).

1980 The Roles of Christ and Inkarr in Andean Religion. Journal of Latin American Lore

6(2):279-298.

1979 S mbolo y Protesta: Movimientos Redentores en Chiapas y los Andes Peruanos. Am rica

Ind gena 39(1):47-80.

1978 Verticality and Andean Cosmology: Quadripartition, Opposition, and Mediation. Actes du

XLII Congr s International des Am ricanistes 4:199-211.

1975 La Alpaca en el Mito y el Ritual. Allpanchis Phuturinqa 8: 141-164. (With Rosalind

Wynne).

1974 Taytacha Qoyllur Riti: Rocas y Bailarines, Creencias y Continuidad. Allpanchis

Phuturinqa 7:49-100.

1973 Reforma Agraria y Sistema de Cargos. Allpanchis Phuturinqa 5:131-158.

Major Consulting Reports

Note: Over a period of some 18 years, I produced many, many reports. While the list that follows

is already abbreviated, I have taken the liberty of marking the reports I consider more worthwhile

with an asterisk and providing a brief description.

1994 Background Paper: Local Government and Participation. Report prepared for the

World Bank Participation Sourcebook. Washington, DC (Coauthor).

1994 Participation and Local Government: Levers for Task Managers. Report prepared for

the World Bank. Washington, DC (Coauthor).

1994 Fiscal Choice and Expressing Voice: Recent Experience in Participation in LAC.

Report prepared for the World Bank, Washington, DC (Coauthor).

*1993 Agriculture and Small Farmer Production: The Case of PRONASOL in Oaxaca.

Report prepared for the World Bank, Washington, DC.

This report deals with some of the central and perennial problems of small farmer

agriculture in contemporary Mexico, ranging from resource depletion to political

marginalization.

1993 Small Farmer Production: The Achilles Heel of Decentralization in Mexico. Report

prepared for the World Bank, Washington, DC.

1993 Uganda: Country Environmental Strategy Paper. Report prepared for the World Bank,

Washington, DC (Coauthor).

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1993 Assessing Forestry Project Impacts:Issues and Strategies. Report prepared for FAO,

UNEP, the World Bank, and EPAT. St. Paul, Minnesota: University of Minnesota

(Coauthor).

1992 The Uganda National Environmental Action Plan: The WRI Contribution During

Phase One. Report prepared for the NEAP Secretariat, Kampala. Washington, DC: WRI

(Principal author).

1990 Enhancing the Effectiveness of Governmental and Non-Governmental Partnership in

Natural Resources Management. A report prepared for the Natural Resources

Management Support Project (NRMS). Washington, DC: EDI and DAI (Coauthor).

1990 Agricultural Sustainability: Provincial Perceptions in Pakistan. Report prepared for

the Government of Pakistan and AID/Pakistan. Washington, DC: DAI (Coauthor).

*1990 The Three Faces of Sustainable Development: Institutions, People, and Natural

Resources. Report prepared for The Osborn Center for Conservation and Development,

World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC.

This report developed a model for better understanding the practical problems underlying

the concept of sustainable development. It also served as the basis for a later publication

in the Proceedings of the 1990 International Rangeland Symposium (Gow 1990).

*1990 Forestry in FAO: Issues and Priorities for the 1990s. Report prepared for the FAO

Forestry Department, Rome.

This report, based on three months of research in Rome, provided an up-to-date analysis

of the problems confronting FAO s Forestry Department.

*1990 National Program for Agroforestry in Haiti. 2 vols. DESFIL report prepared for

AID/Haiti. Washington, DC: DAI ( Principal author).

This report, the work of an interdisciplinary team that I led, consists of an assessment and

redesign of a highly regarded social forestry project in Haiti in which anthropologists and

anthropological knowledge played a crucial role. This report also provided the basis for

two subsequent publications -- Gow 1991 and 1993.

*1989 Social Analysis for Third World Development: Toward Guidelines for the Nineties.

Report prepared for AID/Washington: Washington, DC: DAI (Principal author).

This report, the product of a team of six social scientists that I led, was prepared in

collaboration with the Institute of Development Anthropology. The report critically

assessed the contribution of social analysis, conducted by anthropologists, to USAID s

rural development projects and suggested ways in which such analysis might be improved.

1989 National Community Forestry Strategy for Zambia. Report prepared for the

Government of Zambia and FAO. Lusaka, Zambia: FAO.

1989 Agricultural Research Support Project in Mali: Institutional Analysis for the

Project Identification Document. Report prepared for AID/Mali. Washington, DC: DAI.

1988 Environmental Assessment of the Northern Zone Consolidation Project No. 035 in

Costa Rica. 2 vols. DESFIL report prepared for AID/Costa Rica. Washington, DC: DAI

(Principal author).

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*1986 The Rwanda Social and Institutional Profile. 3 vols. Report prepared for AID/Rwanda.

Washington, DC: DAI (Principal author).

This study which I led called for the assessment of those government institutions working

in the fields of health, education, and agriculture, and was used to provide a basis for

USAID s future development strategies in Rwanda.

1985 The Range Management Improvement Project in Morocco: An Evaluation. Report

prepared for AID/Morocco. Washington, DC: DAI (Principal author).

1984 Refugee Settlement in Somalia: A Discussion and a Report. Report prepared for

AID/Somalia. Washington, DC: DAI (Principal author).

1982 Five Years Later: Progress and Sustainability in Project North Shaba. Report

prepared for AID/Zaire. Washington, DC: DAI (Coauthor).

1982 Agricultural Sector Assistance Strategy for Upper Volta. Report prepared for

AID/Burkina Faso. Washington, DC: DAI (Coauthor).

*1981 Differing Agendas: The Politics of IRD Project Design in Panama. IRD project field

trip report. Washington, DC: DAI (Principal author).

This study, by far the toughest I ever undertook, entailed the redesign of an integrated

rural development project in Panama in a highly charged political environment.

1981 IRD in Colombia: Making it Work. IRD project field trip report. Washington, DC: DAI

(Coauthor).

*1981 Integrated Rural Development: Nine Critical Implementation Problems.IRDResearch

Note No. 1. Washington, DC: DAI (Coauthor).

This research note provided the conceptual framework upon which our later edited volume

(Morss and Gow 1985) was based.

1980 Integrated Rural Development: Making it Work? A state-of-the-art report prepared for

AID/Washington. Washington, DC: DAI (Coauthor).

*1979 Local Organizations and Rural Development: A Comparative Reappraisal. 2 vols.

Report prepared for AID/Washington. Washington, DC: DAI (Principal author).

This study involved comparative research on the role of small farmer organizationa in

Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Much of the data (with full attribution) was subsequently

used by Norman Uphoff in two of his books -- Local Organizations: Intermediaries in

Rural Development (1984) and Local Institutional Development: An Analytical

Sourcebook with Cases (1986).

1977 The Rural Poor in Haiti: A Social Analysis. Report prepared for AID/Haiti.

Washington, DC: DAI.

1976 An Evaluation of the Haitian American Community Help Organization. Report

prepared for AID/Haiti. (Coauthor).

Washington, DC

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