Developing Zimbabwe: Building the capacity of libraries to foster innovation and national development
Demystifying Development it is necessary to stress that: Development covers both theory and practice, that is both ideas about how development should or might occur, & real world efforts to put various aspects of development into practice Potter et..al 2004 Development involves 3 things Development theories Development strategies Development ideologies Development Theories: regarded as sets of ostensibly logical propositions which aim to explain how development has occurred in the past and/or how it should occur in the future Either be: Normative- genaralise about what should happen or be the case in an ideal world Positive- in the sense of dealing with what has generally been the case in the past Development Strategies: practical paths to development which may be pursued by countries; NGOs or indeed individuals, in an effort to stimulate change within particular regions & continents. Hettre 1995 -efforts to change existing economic & social structures &a