Culture and Public Action or xito comercial

Culture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy

Author: Vijayendra Rao

"The observation that cultural norms affect economic development has been made repeatedly, yet it has been very hard to use it effectively, whether for policy or for prediction. The essays in this volume present authoritatively the present state of knowledge and point out new aspects which hold out the prospect of greater usefulness."—Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University, and Winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics
“The editors are to be congratulated on having attracted three heavy hitters to their enterprise—Amartya Sen, Mary Douglas, and Arjun Appadurai. And these luminaries have come up with the goods, writing papers any one of which would attract readers. This book will have a diverse readership and it will deserve to do so.”—Dr. Keith Hart, University of Aberdeen

Table of Contents:

1	Culture and public action : relationality, equality of agency, and development	3
2	How does culture matter?	37
3	The capacity to aspire : culture and the terms of recognition	59
4	Traditional culture - let's hear no more about it	85
5	Appendix to Douglas : cultural theory and development studies	110
6	Cultural obstacles to economic development : often overstated, usually transitory	115
7	Cultural goods are good for more than their economic value	138
8	The intellectual history of culture and development institutions	163
9	Culture, poverty, and external intervention	185
10	Participatory development : where culture creeps in	210
11	State policies and women's agency in China, the Republic of Korea, and India, 1950-2000 : lessons from contrasting experiences	234
12	HIV/AIDS and culture : implications for policy	260
13	Political culture and development	281
14	Relief and an understanding of local knowledge : the case of Southern Sudan	307
15	The Mayan movement and national culture in Guatemala	328
16	Conclusion : implications of a cultural lens for public policy and development thought	359

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?xito comercial: Pr?cticas administrativas y contextos culturales (with Aud

Author: Michael Scott Doyl

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