Empowerment : the politics of alternative development created by John Friedmann

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1 - Alternative Development: Its Origins and Moral Justification, 2 - Trajectory: From Exclusion to Empowermen, 3 - Rethinking the Economy: The Whole--Economy Model, 4 - Rethinking Poverty: The (Dis)Empowerment Model, 5 - Political Claims I: Inclusive Democracy and Appropriate Economic Growth, 6 - Political Claims II: Gender Equality and Intergenerational Equity, 7 - Practice: From Social to Political Power.

Two--thirds of the population of the world are poor, and their number is growing in the first as well as in the third world, despite billions of dollars of aid. The economic development policies of the last two decades, and the theory which gave rise to them, have been discredited.