Governing the Poor : Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid
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| Title: | Governing the Poor : Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid |
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| Description: | Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved. Global generations present the poor as a heterogeneous group and stress globalized solutions to the problem of poverty. Governing the Poor exposes the ways in which such generalized descriptions and quantifications marginalize the poor and their experiences. |
| Authors: | Suzan Ilcan, Anita Lacey |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Non-governmental organizations--Developing countries, Poverty--Government policy, International agencies--Developing countries, Poor--Developing countries, Poverty--Developing countries, Neoliberalism |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved. Global generations present the poor as a heterogeneous group and stress globalized solutions to the problem of poverty. Governing the Poor exposes the ways in which such generalized descriptions and quantifications marginalize the poor and their experiences. |
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| ISBN: | 9780773538054 9780773537972 9780773586536 9780773586611 |
