Reconsidering Neoliberal Solutions to Poverty from an Anthropological Perspective

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19014166
AutoresYukun Sun (0009-0008-7499-8092, London School of Economics and Political Science, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Data de publicação2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAdvances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research/Advances in social science, education and humanities research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2731-8060 • E-ISSN: 2352-5398
EditoraAtlantis Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.2991/assehr.k.220504.429
OpenAlexW4285227383
IdiomaEN
Referências 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