Anthropology of development tends to view development from a critical perspective. The kind of issues addressed and implications for the approach simply involve pondering why, if a key development goal is to alleviate poverty, is poverty increasing? Why is there such a gap between plans and outcomes? Why are those working in development so willing to disregard history and the lessons it might offer? Why is development so externally driven rather than having an internal basis? In short why does so much planned development fail? COUNT 5
QSN1 What perspective does development anthropology view development from? ANS1 critical QSN2 What does development anthropology involves doing a lot of? ANS2 pondering QSN3 Development anthropologists would like to know why if a goal is to alleviate poverty, that poverty is doing what? ANS3 increasing QSN4 When it comes to plans and outcomes, what do development anthropologists look at between them? ANS4 gap QSN5 What does a lot of planned development apparently do? ANS5 fail