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The British academic and development practitioner Robert Chambers, in his book Rural Development: Putting the Last First, wrote in 1983:
Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people’s knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty.’
“Rural poverty deserves a higher priority than defence. Yet we found that …