| Abstract: | The analytical models adopted to guide decision making in many development agencies are inherently biased. In using market values to decide the worth of things, these approaches are systematically biased against the interests of the poor. In assuming that value can be assessed objectively, they are blind to the reality that different parties value the same things differently. Thus they have little use for broad participation in the construction of reality. Indeed, by failing to acknowledge and address conflict forthrightly, they deny politics. There are better ways of seeing things. |
