DESPITE GOOD INTENTIONS: Why Development Assistance to the Third World Has Failed Thomas W. Dichter 320 pages (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003) The best service we development professionals can now render to developing countries is for most of us to fade away quietly and allow the era of externally provided development assistance to come to a close,” argues Thomas Dichter. A former consultant to USAID, Dichter argues for eliminating virtually all international development… DESPITE GOOD INTENTIONS: Why Development Assistance to the Third World Has Failed Thomas W. Dichter 320 pages (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003) The best service we development professionals can now render to developing countries is for most of us to fade away quietly and allow the era of externally provided development assistance to come to a close,” argues Thomas Dichter. A former consultant to USAID, Dichter argues for eliminating virtually all international development…

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