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From clients to citizens: Asset-based development

This paper presents asset-based community development (ABCD) as an alternative to needs-based development. It explores the theory and practice of appreciative enquiry, the concept of social capital, the theory of community economic development and lessons learned from the last two decades of participatory development.

 

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