0 the quality of not needing help or support from other people: --
1 the ability to depend on yourself or your own abilities: --
It re-emphasized earlier models of self-reliance based on increasing the economic activities, productivity and earnings of its members.
Strong cultural factors that restrained their use of services, such as a fear of stigmatisation and the pride attached to self-reliance, were repeatedly mentioned.
Is dependency necessarily something bad and self-reliance necessarily something good?
Apart from places where key persons are mentioned without explanation or without their full names, these chapters do justice to the discussion on self-reliance.
One must also allow for the possibility of increased localisation of production and self-reliance.
However, with preference endogeneity, the demonstration effect of a policy which accredits the 'virtues' of self-reliance and of a 'market' mentality can not be neglected.
We are studying how different mindsets greet this change, one resisting necessary adjustments, another responding with self-confidence and self-reliance.
Underlying this view is the value of individualism, which stresses the virtues of independence, autonomy, and self-reliance (74;93).