Reconsidering Neoliberal Solutions to Poverty from an Anthropological Perspective
Using the Bottom-of-Pyramid (BOP) Approach and Micro-Credit as Examples
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19014166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yukun Sun (0009-0008-7499-8092, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research/Advances in social science, education and humanities research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2731-8060 • E-ISSN: 2352-5398 |
| Publisher | Atlantis Press (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.429 |
| OpenAlex | W4285227383 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
With the emergence and spread of precarity not only of the working class, the instability, and unsustainability of the existing structures underpinned by neoliberalism in most regions of the world have been critiqued a lot. However, in addition to labor practices, the impact of other forms of development supported by neoliberalism (such as neoliberal anti-poverty initiatives) has received scant attention. Through literature review, this paper will take the microcredit programs of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and the bottom-of-pyramid (BOP) approach launched by Avon Cosmetics in South Africa as concrete examples to illustrate that although neoliberal development projects at the micro-level provide alternative possibilities for poverty reduction, the emergence of these projects has left real profound problems and virtually controlled the marginalized people, and it even helps to maintain the current systems full of inequality
Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Poverty · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Human Rights and Development · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
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Ordering Insecurity
The Paradoxes of Neoliberalism
Supply Chains and the Human Condition
Theory from the South
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Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics and contemporary neo-liberalism debates
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Empowerment Money
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Governing through the Market
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |