The micro-macro distinction encourages a strategy of integration in which the micro people work up to the macro level and the macro people work down to the micro level. I will argue here that they may suffer the fate of Pat and Mick who started building a tunnel by working from both ends toward the middle and ended up with two tunnels [3]. I will argue, further, that I can see light only from one end of the tunnel - the one which goes from micro to macro. This may simply be the rationalization of a micro man but I will try to present a rationale for this argument. I will argue even further that this light can be seen only when looking one way - from the inside-out rather than from the outside-in. That is, I am abandoning the good-natured democratic stance that each level of analysis and each point of view is equally valid and saying that one should start with the micro level of analysis and inside-out point of view (that is, from the bottom right cell of the 2 x 2 matrix in Figure 4.1).

However, most discussion of development is from a macro level of analysis and an outside-in point of view - that is, from within the top left cell of the 2 x 2 matrix in Figure 4.1. One typical textbook, Problems of the developing nations by L. P. Fickett, is organized under the ' four fundamental aspects of the development process' - the sociological, the economic, the military, and the political (that is, all of them are at the macro level of analysis and the outside-in point of view).