The Big Catch: A Practical Introduction To Development

by A.F. Robertson

This interactive, role-playing case book is an enormously rich and stimulating way of challenging students to think about the problems of development and how development experts go about trying to alleviate them. One of the most innovative and eloquent anthropologists of development, A. F. Robertson has drawn from his extensive field experience to construct a hypothetical scenario of the sort typically encountered by those who are making development decisions.

Genres: Nonfiction

156 pages, Hardcover

First published October 12, 1995

Reviews

[Juniper Danielsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cool concept. Very economics heavy, which I suppose is to be expected with anything development related. However, there were quite a few instances where I felt like the numbers offered were really irrelevant to the scenario and just made me feel like I'd wasted my time studying the section. Worth a read nonetheless.