03780nam 2200709 a 450 991077925330332120230725060443.00-7735-8661-X0-7735-8653-910.1515/9780773586536(CKB)2550000000104670(EBL)3332166(SSID)ssj0000717164(PQKBManifestationID)11488557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000717164(PQKBWorkID)10739936(PQKB)10668024(CEL)444075(OCoLC)806255231(CaBNVSL)slc00230002(MiAaPQ)EBC3332166(Au-PeEL)EBL3332166(CaPaEBR)ebr10577747(OCoLC)923235455(DE-B1597)656943(DE-B1597)9780773586536(EXLCZ)99255000000010467020110912d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGoverning the poor[electronic resource] exercises of poverty reduction, practices of global aid /Suzan Ilcan and Anita LaceyMontreal ;Ithaca [N.Y.] McGill-Queen's University Pressc20111 online resource (334 p.)0-7735-3805-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-299) and index.Towards a genealogy of poverty reduction : from relief to the new global-aid regime? -- Making the poor responsible -- Empowering the poor: Oxfam's poverty-reduction initiatives -- Global aid in post-apartheid Namibia -- Mobilizing Katutura : "a place where we will never settle" -- Partnering the poor : USAID's poverty-reduction partnerships -- Spaces of exclusion : securing Soloman Islands."Every day we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved. Global generalizations present the poor as a heterogeneous group and stress globalized solutions. Governing the Poor exposes the ways in which such generalized descriptions and quantifications marginalize the poor and their experiences. Drawing on field research in Namibia and the Solomon Islands and case studies of international organizations such as USAID and Oxfam, Suzan Ilcan and Anita Lacey argue that aid programs have forged new understandings of poverty that are more about governing the poor through neo-liberal reforms than providing just solutions to poverty. The concepts of privation, empowerment, and partnership used in these programs are tools that treat the poor as a governed entity within a system of actors-governments, international organizations, and private businesses-that make up the global-aid regime. An illuminating work of critiques and solutions for the current global-aid regime, Governing the Poor shows the consequences of championing market-based solutions to poverty while neglecting to provide social infrastructure."--Book Jacket.PoorDeveloping countriesPovertyDeveloping countriesNeoliberalismInternational agenciesDeveloping countriesNon-governmental organizationsDeveloping countriesPovertyGovernment policyPoorPovertyNeoliberalism.International agenciesNon-governmental organizationsPovertyGovernment policy.362.5/526Ilcan Suzan1108533Lacey Anita1974-1515774MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779253303321Governing the poor3751779UNINA