ABSTRACT
In Chapters 1 and 6, we saw that technical cooperation projects, or TC, sometimes serve to highlight rather than decrease the gap between rich and poor, not only between (1) donor and host, but also (2) between host and host. The corollary of privilege-proximity, of course, is that someone else is relatively deprived. In his sociological treatise on envy, Schoeck (1969) describes both righteous indignation at the clear good fortune of others (which may be especially noticeable to those with little by way of material wealth, see Chapter 5, this volume), as well as envy that may be directed at those who are more socially comparable (Festinger, 1954). Envy today is less of a repressed topic in management generally (Bedeian, 1995), and the recent development-studies literature warns that expatriate salaries often create indignation among hosts (Dore, 1994), while aid benefits may precipitate witchcraft between them (Kohnert, 1996).
