As part of my reading for my doctoral Political Economy class at the School of Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire (notice the shameless plug!)  I read a recent article in the Harvard International Review titled Development as Poison.  It is an excellent synopsis of the role of western development initiatives and models in the global south.  Specifically, I appreciated on the writer’s focus on the West’s predominant thinking in terms of markets, effectiveness and productivity as opposed to community with respect to the development process.  Please take a look at this work, if you have not already!