ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the local-level development strategies emerged as a response to international, national and local systems of distributing resources. It utilizes Borj Hammoud to demonstrate the local-level development implications of systems of resource distribution. The chapter outlines a theoretical framework for analyzing local-level development strategies. It describes the development strategies of its residents and their responses to international, national and local systems of resource distribution. The people of Borj Hammoud, Lebanon – settling there as refugees from regional and international wars, economic dislocation and social discontent – constructed strategies for survival in the early 1970s through family, patron-client and ethnic-sect associations. Several predictions concerning the impact of international, national and local conditions on development in Borj Hammoud. The chapter concludes by raising the theoretical implications for local development of the allocation of resources along family, patronage and sectarian lines.
