Subject(s): Rural poor in Developing countries. -- Rural development. -- Rural poverty unperceived : Urban trap, rural development tourism, rural poverty unobserved, spatial biases -- Two cultures of outsiders : Political economists, physical ecologists, partiality, pluralism, third culture -- How outsiders learn, cost effectiveness, Ledejinsky's tourism and green revolution, senaratne's windows into regions, reconnaissance for crop improvement, BRAC -- Knowledge, rural people's knowledge, farming practices -- Integrated rural poverty : Cluster of disadvantages, deprivation trap, vulnerability and poverty ratchets, powerlessness -- Finding and making opportunities, political feasibility -- New professionalism, spatial reversals, political economy for all -- practical action : Scope for personal choice, reversal in learning, reversals in management