1. Introduction: hope and despair-- 2. Anthropologists engaged-- 3. The social and political organisation of aid and development-- 4. The elusive poor-- 5. Human rights and cultural fantasies-- 6. Hierarchies of knowledge-- 7. The moralities of production and exchange-- 8. The politics of policy and practice-- 9. Imagining the future-- Appendix 1. Challenging questions arising from this book.