Acknowledgments  vii
1. Social Engineering from Above and Below  1
2. Repackaging Development in Guatemala  29
3. Namaste's Bootstrap Model  64
4. Women and Workers Responding to Bootstrap Development  90
5. The Fraternity's Holistic Model  134
6. The Uneven Practices and Experiences of Holistic Development  162
7. The Implications of Socially Constructed Development  208
Appendix. Research Methods and Ethical Dilemmas  225
Notes  233
References  239
Index  259

"Erin Beck's extraordinary book is a major contribution to both development policy and development scholarship. It reminds readers that development projects don't just appear, intervene, and leave, but rather are themselves part of long, complex trajectories. Important, accessible, and setting a provocative agenda for development studies, How Development Projects Persist is a highly effective teaching tool for both undergraduate and graduate students and should be required reading for development workers and all scholars of NGOs, humanitarianism, and development." — Jocelyn Viterna, author of Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador

"By highlighting the ways people animate and transform NGO interventions, Erin Beck challenges accounts of NGOs that imply that development is merely something that happens to people. Demonstrating the need to embrace the frequently observed gap between the intentions and outcomes of development projects, Beck's excellent book offers us a rich set of insights into women's lives, identities, and agency as well as an understanding of the everyday working lives of NGO workers." — David Lewis, London School of Economics & Political Science

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