Eds. Alison Mathie, Gordon Cunningham. CONTENTS: Foreword by John P. Kretzmann Boxes Figures Tables Acronyms Introduction Sect. I Communities mobilizing assets and driving their own development 1 Possibilities for income-deprived but capability-rich communities in Egypt by Waad El Hadidy 2 God created the world and we created Conjunto Palmeira: four decades of forging community and building a local economy in Brazil by Rogerio Arns Neumann and Alison Mathie and Joanne Linzey 3 Building the Mercado Central: Asset Based Community Development and community entrepreneurship in the USA by Geralyn Sheehan 4 The Jambi Kiwa story: mobilizing assets for community development in Ecuador by Gordon Cunningham 5 When bamboo is old, the sprouts appear: rekindling local economies through traditional skills in Hanoi, Vietnam by Jim Delaney and Nguyen Duc Vinh 6 By their own hands: two hundred years of building community in St Andrews, Nova Scotia, Canada by Gordon Cunningham and Kate Fiander 7 The hardware and software of community development: migrant infrastructure projects in rural Morocco by Natasha Iskander and Nadia Bentaleb-Maes 8 A spreading banyan tree: the Self Employed Women's Association, India by Martha Chen 9 People's institutions as a vehicle for community development: a case study from Southern India by Alison Mathie 10 Jansenville Development Forum: linking community and government in the rural landscape of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa by Susan Wilkinson-Maposa Sect. II ABCD in Ethiopia, Kenya and the Philippines 11 Stimulating Asset Based and Community Driven Development: lessons from five communities in Ethiopia by Gordon Cunningham More...