Subject(s): Autonomy -- Dependency on foreign countries -- Economic policy -- Economic assistance -- Foreign countries. -- Decolonizing mind, autonomous development -- Maldevelopment : religion, re-embedding economic in culture -- Maldevelopment- coming to term with terms : Third world, third system, fourth world, politics and gender -- Demystifying participation of beneficiaries and benefactors : Community development, putting people first and Bretton Woods institutions, rapid rural appraisal -- Ownership and creation of knowledge : Education as commofitized knowledge, non-formal education, world bank, knowledge creation, commoditized knowledge production -- Autonomy : Political autonomy, cultural autonomy- reading word and the world, entrepreneurial autonomy and literacy, EWTO/WEM, west African NAAM model of organisation, self-reliance or economic embedded in culture - Max-Neef and invisible (barefoot) economy -- Humanizing the landscape - ethical imperative : Women countering masculinization of the motherhood - WID analysis to gender analysis, human rights, women, environment and development ecofeminism and feminist enviornmentalism -- Humanizing the landscape- ethical imperative