People are usually willing to change just enough to maintain, or slightly improve on, what they already have. For this reason, development projects are most likely to succeed when they avoid the fallacy of

A. cultural relativism.
B. ethno-bias.
C. overinnovation.
D. underdifferentiation.
E. intervention philosophy.


Answer: C

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