Reconsidering Neoliberal Solutions to Poverty from an Anthropological Perspective

Using the Bottom-of-Pyramid (BOP) Approach and Micro-Credit as Examples

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19014166
AutoresYukun Sun (0009-0008-7499-8092, London School of Economics and Political Science, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAdvances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research/Advances in social science, education and humanities research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2731-8060 • E-ISSN: 2352-5398
EditorialAtlantis Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.2991/assehr.k.220504.429
OpenAlexW4285227383
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas12

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