If that is the case, people working in development should engage with the government to help establish new approaches, with eradicating the practice as their central purpose.
And with the majority of the world's poorest people living in middle-income countries, how should aid donors, civil society organisations and other development actors engage with rising inequality within countries?
But corruption is the perennial elephant in the room: there is a palpable reluctance by those working in development to engage with the public on the complexity of corruption in poor countries.
All reported that they agree or strongly agree that they like PAT visits and that they strongly agree that PAT visits helped the caregiver understand development and engage with their child.
Which is why it's significant that The Guardian newspaper in London has just made a major hire direct out of Yahoo! to build a development platform to engage with developers and startups.
The failure of development experts to engage with the real world continues to minimise context and fuel dangerous myths about development.
Rather than fear such developments, we should engage with them.
I was in Jerusalem to follow up on new developments and to engage with some of the students and graduates of the Bakehila's Learning and Enrichment Centers.
Ethnographic evidence, spatial analysis and a survey of expatriate development workers engaged with land issues in Laos suggest that such 'political memories' are an important but often overlooked factor in shaping an uneven concessions landscape.
The CRHP adopts a community development approach engaging with local people through groups including Farmer's Clubs, Mahila Mandal or women's groups, and adolescent girls' groups.
