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Peer reviewedEwert, D. Merrill; Eberts, Paul R. – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1993
Results of a survey of 1,230 workers in intercultural programs conducted by Christian agencies showed that those with an assistentialist approach believe individual failures cause poverty and define development as external intervention. Those with a facilitory approach view development as a transformative process through which people can solve…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Beliefs, Christianity, Community Development
