A World Bank Project Implemented by a Moderate Islamic Party

This paper presents some related processes in Turkey which have been initiated or influenced by the World Bank's execution of the Social Risk Mitigation Project (SRMP). It argues that the Justice and Development Party (AKP), as a party that redefined social assistance as charity by incorporating Islamic values with neo-liberalism, benefited from the SRMP for increasing its public support. It also demonstrates how the AKP's use of this project for its political aims led to some unintended consequences, causing the production and spreading of discourses about the poor, the Kurdish population and the emergence of a culture of poverty in the country

Development economics · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Islam · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Poverty · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development · Turkey's Politics and Society