The Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA) traces its roots to a workshop held in Thailand in 1974. This is a regional partnership of eleven different social development networks and organizations in ten Asian countries "that envisions Asian rural communities that are just, free, prosperous, living in peace and working in solidarity towards...

How can one measure the importance of a road? Certainly in the American context, roads have been tremendously important to the growth of this nation, stretching back to the first dirt paths created by Native Americans. Roads are conduits for the flow of goods, people, and ideas, and in the developing world, they have the potential to be intensely important. Despite the much-touted "leveling" of...