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Yossef Ben-Meir teaches sociology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and is president of the High Atlas Foundation (www.hightatlasfoundation.org) a nonprofit organization that advances community development in Morocco.
Friday, December 19, 2008 Bottom-Up Stimulus (7 comments)
What development projects deliver short-term relief to people and long-term economic structural change for sustained growth and should therefore be part of the upcoming economic stimulus package? The answer: projects determined and managed by the local communities they are intended to benefit.