Developing countries are increasingly faced with the lack of alternative institutions
to counter the social processes entrenched in local settings that lead
to poverty. In this book, the author investigates the potentials of Churchbased
organizations (CBOs) as alternative mechanisms, and suggests a communitarian
approach to poverty eradication as a back up to the past and
present approaches offered by modernism and post modernism respectively.
Both the upcoming theory of Social Learning and the age-old principle of
Participation are used as a theoretical framework, with empirical data...