Between Cant and Corporatism Creating an Enabling Political Environment for the Poor

Bibliographic Data

ID11470976
AuthorsMick Moore (0000-0002-3054-6114), Anuradha Joshi (0000-0003-0990-7701)
Year1999
Volume30
Issue4
Pages50-59
Publication date1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIDS Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436
PublisherInstitute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1759-5436.1999.mp30004007.x
OpenAlexW1996850388
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

Summaries Aid and development agencies like to believe that they manage their development programmes in ways that empower the poor. This is rare in practice, even (or especially?) in the case of newly?fashionable programmes that are explicitly targeted on the poor and justified in terms of ‘empowerment’. Any attempt genuinely to use public anti?poverty programmes to encourage the autonomous, collective mobilisation (‘empowerment’) of the poor will be a struggle — but a worthwhile struggle. How can ‘friends of the poor’ in government or other external agencies design and manage their anti?poverty programmes to encourage this mobilisation? We explore the options and make a case for the importance of creating an enabling institutional environment: the conditions that encourage poor people, social activists and grassroots political entrepreneurs to invest in pro?poor mobilisation

Commons · Corporate governance · Corporatism · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Grassroots · Livelihood · Management · OpenAccess · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Public relations · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration

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