ABSTRACT
The World Bank’s activities rest on the fallacy that Western systems can be grown in or imposed upon any culture. The commission sees a new approach to international finance and reform of the monetary system as playing a major part in helping both the Third World and the West. To see development problems as they are it will be useful to look at an example of what is happening in the villages, where most of the Third World people live. The Institute of Agricultural Research’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology designed the Guided Change Project after having studied village socio-economy for nearly seven years. The project designers realized that their main task was to convince the government that a change in its development policy, in so far as it has one, would pay. Most significant has been the breakdown of the lineage system and the development of private property.
