The weakness in this approach is that the people whose needs are greatest are typically seriously underrepresented in the halls of economic and political power. (Why do you think their needs are greatest?) Still, this is vastly better than some top-down approach in which the bright boys who brought on the crisis pretend to solve it.Via opednews
Bottom-Up Stimulus
by Yossef Ben-Meir
What development projects deliver short-term relief to people and long-term economic structural change for sustained growth and should therefore be part of the upcoming economic stimulus package? The answer: projects determined and managed by the local communities they are intended to benefit.
Depending on life conditions and challenges rural and urban communities face and the ideas they have for local development, projects communities typically prioritize to implement include roads, schools, clinics, community centers, daycare, and cooperatives. They are in private sector development, pubic health, green initiatives, training, and empowering people. They are in agriculture, manufacturing, and human services and development.