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At a time when the global development industry is under more
pressure than ever before, this book argues that an end to poverty
can only be achieved by prioritizing human dignity. Unable to
adequately account for the roles of culture, context, and local
institutions, today's outsider-led development interventions
continue to leave a trail of unintended consequences, ranging from
wasteful to even harmful. This book shows that increased prosperity
can only be achieved when people are valued as self-governing
agents. Social orders that recognize autonomy and human dignity
unleash enormous productive energy. This in turn leads to the
mobilization of knowledge-sharing that is critical to innovation
and localized problem-solving. Offering a wide range of
interdisciplinary perspectives and specific examples from the field
showing these ideas in action, this book provides NGOs,
multilateral institutions, and donor countries with practical
guidelines for implementing "dignity-first" development. Compelling
and engaging, with a wide range of recommendations for reforming
development practice and supporting liberal democracy, this book
will be an essential read for students and practitioners of
international development.
At a time when the global development industry is under more
pressure than ever before, this book argues that an end to poverty
can only be achieved by prioritizing human dignity. Unable to
adequately account for the roles of culture, context, and local
institutions, today's outsider-led development interventions
continue to leave a trail of unintended consequences, ranging from
wasteful to even harmful. This book shows that increased prosperity
can only be achieved when people are valued as self-governing
agents. Social orders that recognize autonomy and human dignity
unleash enormous productive energy. This in turn leads to the
mobilization of knowledge-sharing that is critical to innovation
and localized problem-solving. Offering a wide range of
interdisciplinary perspectives and specific examples from the field
showing these ideas in action, this book provides NGOs,
multilateral institutions, and donor countries with practical
guidelines for implementing "dignity-first" development. Compelling
and engaging, with a wide range of recommendations for reforming
development practice and supporting liberal democracy, this book
will be an essential read for students and practitioners of
international development.
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Why Liberty (Paperback)
Tom G Palmer; Edited by Tom G Palmer; Designed by Colleen Cummings
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Taking the long view of conflicts between truth and political
powerWhat role does truth play in government? In context of recent
political discourse around the globe and especially in the United
States it is easy to believe that truth, in the form of
indisputable facts, is a matter of debate. But it's also important
to remember that since ancient times, every religious and
philosophical tradition has wrestled with this question. In this
volume, scholars representing ten traditions Western and Eastern,
religious and secular address the nature of truth and its role in
government. Among the questions they address: When is deception
permissible, or even a good thing? What remedies are necessary and
useful when governments fail in their responsibilities to be
truthful? The authors consider the relationship between truth and
governance in democracies, but also in non-democratic regimes.
Although democracy is distinctive in requiring truth as a
fundamental basis for governing, non-democratic forms of government
also cannot do without truth entirely. If ministers cannot give
candid advice to rulers, the government's policies are likely to
proceed on false premises and therefore fail. If rulers do not
speak truthfully to their people, trust will erode. Each author in
this book addresses a common set of issues: the nature of truth;
the morality of truth-telling; the nature of government, which
shapes each tradition's understanding of the relationship between
governance and truth; the legitimacy and limits of regulating
speech; and remedies when truth becomes divorced from governance.
Truth and Governance will open readers' eyes to the variety of
possible approaches to the relationship between truth and
governance. Readers will find views they thought self-evident
challenged and will come away with a greater understanding of the
importance of truth and truth-telling, and of how to counter
deliberate deception.
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