“But Searchers are different. A Searcher hopes to find solutions by trial and error. He knows one solution will not fit every situation. A Searcher also understands he will need some input from the local people to succeed. Easterly also concluded that Searchers have much better results. “The Planners,” Easterly says, “have the rhetorical advantage of promising great things: the end of poverty.” But the Searchers are the ones who actually make a difference in people’s lives and move them, in a variety of ways, out of poverty and on to sustainability. They understand that the causes of poverty are multifaceted, and they will need to employ different tools in different settings.” —Gary Miller
From the book THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL