International Development Assistance: Learning to Get It Right

This web-based book by the late Charles P. Boyce draws on his 40 years of experience as a consultant for international development programs.

In his Foreword, Boyce says he "wished to draw lessons that would advance my understanding of events and their consequences and to share them with professional colleagues. Most of all, however, I wished to share them with those who, as concerned citizens of the most influential democracy in the world, must remain abreast of the problems and prospects of international assistance if the lives of those in the less developed countries are to be significantly improved."

Chapter 1
Urban Renewal in a Latin Culture
(includes Cover, Table of Contents, Acknowledgements, Foreword and Chapter 1)

Chapter 2
Improving Local Government

Chapter 3
National Spatial Planning

Chapter 4
Institution Building: The Inter-American Center for Regional Development

Chapter 5
Development Planning for a Tropical Rain Forest

Chapter 6
University-Based Development Planning

Chapter 7
Building Indigenous Training Systems

Chapter 8
Learning Through Literature

Chapter 9
Retrospective View: How Hard It Is to Get It Right