Anthropology of development tends to view development from a critical perspective. The kind of issues addressed and implications for the approach simply involve pondering why, if a key development goal is to alleviate poverty, is poverty increasing? Why is there such a gap between plans and outcomes? Why are those working in development so willing to disregard history and the lessons it might offer? Why is development so externally driven rather than having an internal basis? In short why does so much planned development fail?
Is there an answer to this question (If it cannot be answered, say "unanswerable"): Development anthropologists would like to know why if a goal is to alleviate poverty, that poverty is doing what?
increasing