Akhtar Hameed Khan

Herausgegeben:Miller, Frederic P.; Vandome, Agnes F.; McBrewster, John

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Akhter Hameed Khan was a Pakistani development activist and social scientist credited for pioneering microcredit and microfinance initiatives, farmers' cooperatives, and rural training programmes in the developing world. He promoted participatory rural development in Pakistan and other developing countries, and widely advocated community participation in development. His particular contribution was the establishment of a comprehensive project for rural development, the Comilla Model (1959). It earned him the Ramon Magsaysay Award from the Philippines and an honorary Doctorate of Law from Michigan State University. In the 1980s he started a bottom up community development initiative of Orangi Pilot Project, based in the outskirts of Karachi, which became a model of participatory development initiatives

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786130233327
• ISBN-10: 6130233329
• Artikelnr.: 28008223