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Myth of bottom-up model and top-down approach’s failings

Bottom-up model proponent DP William Ruto. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Development from below, bottom-up development, bottom of the pyramid approach, grassroots development - these are some of the phrases planners coined decades ago to support an alternative development model for poor countries.

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