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A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities. Philip van Ufford and Ananta Kumar Giri, eds. New York: Routledge, 2003. 309 pp.

A review article on books by: James Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1990); & Doug Porter, Bryant Allen, & Gaye Thompson, Development in Practice: Paved with Good Intentions (London & New York: Routledge, 1991 [see listings in IRPSPPD No. 28]). Ferguson examines the development discourse & functioning of communities that need aid, through a case study of a development project in central Lesotho involving livestock development, agricultural improvement, & administrative change. Ferguson suggests that development planners do not devise their development solutions through conceptually neutral evaluation of a country's development problems, but instead, construe problems so that they fit the solutions of the standard development discourse of the right technology, modern infrastructure, & control orientation. The Thaba Tseka project in Lesotho illustrates the dynamic; it failed because the assumptions on which it was based were erroneous. Porter, Allen, & Thompson, writing from within the development industry, describe the experience of the Margarini Settlement Project in Kenya. Porter et al describe & critique the control orientation of the Margarani & other projects, calling it the "antithesis of good development practice.". I. Shagrir