... to some of the difficul-ties in differentiating the role of development communication from the other types of Bank communication. To be sure, these other types of communication, amongtheir various ... influenced the role of communication are the modernization paradigm, the dependency theory, and the participation paradigm.• The current conception of development communication is based on the two-waymodel, ... extremes, there are other kinds of participation with varying degrees of people’s involvement. The full categorization, starting from the least participatory,includes passive participation, participation...