Rethinking Poverty: Class and Ethical Dimensions of Poverty Eradication (original) (raw)

Globalization and the politics of poverty alleviation in the South

Stokke, K. (1998). Globalization and the politics of poverty alleviation in the South. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 52, 221-228.

Persistent poverty and on-going restructuring of the state have produced new conceptualizations of social development and poverty alleviation in the South. It is argued in this article that it is important to undertake critical political analyses of specific programs for poverty alleviation. The scope and scale of poverty alleviation programs are seen as products of political and economic structures, but also of specific material and symbolic practices employed by key political actors. The article outlines some conceptual considerations regarding the politics of poverty alleviation and illustrates these with a brief discussion of the Janasaviya Poverty Alleviation Program in Sri Lanka

The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South

2017

This workshop will approach social change toward poverty eradication and prevention in an interdisciplinary and critical way taking current politics as the point of reference. The organizers are especially interested in empirical and theoretical research that focuses on progressive social change and real-world applications of such ideas in the "global South". The workshop will bring together a maximum of 22 participants from across all university disciplines. This call for papers is open to all although preference will be given to researchers based in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Construction of the Third World: A Southern Perspective on the Politics of Development

2019

Development started as a policy intervention to help poor states follow in the footsteps of developed states. Development carries the baggage of enlightenmentideas of time, human, nature, and society. This scientific interpretation of human society forms a linear stage understanding of evolution of every sociability along European lines. Epistemically and thematically, modernisation and globalisation aspirations attached with development have its root in colonial aspirations of civilisation. From linear stage growth model to structural adjustment and then sustainable development, the development discourse has widely misrepresented the sociabilities it pledges to transform because it starts with the marginalisation of every non-modern perspective. Post-development is a set of post-modernist, post-colonial, and post-abyssal critiques of development, which is focused at traditional and non-modern knowledge to excavate alternatives to development for the so called third world. The devel...

Strategies against poverty : designs from the North and alternatives from the South

2012

This book presents the contributions of African and Latin American experts on economic development to the seminar Strategies against poverty: Designs from the North and Alternatives from the South organized by the Conferencia Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO, the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, CROP and the South- South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of development, SEPHIS. The purpose of the seminar was to open space for debate, from a historical perspective, alternative theoretical approaches on the causes of poverty and to explore the, sometimes diverging, strategies to its eradication as proposed by the North, donors and multilateral organizations, and by the South, governments and non-governmental organizations. The particular interest in studying poverty in the context of developing countries, often called the South, is to show the profound socio-economic inequalities existing in these countries and the problems that result when the progr...

Global Poverty: A Marxian Analysis

Problems in Political Economy, 2021

настоящего альтернативного социализма-это задача, которой должны заняться все марксисты для освобождения людей как от капиталистического империализма, так и от потенциально искаженных форм социализма.

Poverty alleviation and the Third World

Pakistan Economic and Social Review, 2001

Poverty, a global issue, plaguing developed as well as developing nations, has become the focus of economists since early 1950s. During the last two decades, this issue has received enormous worldwide attention and various international organizations have issued their findings regarding reasons of poverty and possible remedies to its reduction and/or eradication in the world. One of the components of poverty, however, has not received due attention. This paper attempts to point out basic flaws in traditional methods used in poverty alleviation and focus on the role of the political economy and the transfers of wealth from the rich to the poor. It is imperative that the institutional framework and the policies designed by the government must be for the development of the poor and that the standard of living must be raised for the people living at the absolute poverty level in both developed and developing nations. If the issue of poverty is not checked and remedial measures are not taken the catastrophic effects would be far reaching and non-reversible.

Poverty in Development Thought: Symptom or Cause

International Development, 2014

This paper examines how the concept of poverty has waxed and waned within development thought and how these fluctuations have shaped development policy and action toward, or away from, direct goals of poverty reduction or eradication. It provides an overview of poverty in social thought; examines the contestations over how poverty analysis is positioned in development theory; charts the conceptual contestations around poverty; presents a brief history of poverty in development thought and action; looks at the contrasting geographies of contemporary poverty; and concludes by considering whether a synthesis is emerging from structuralist and liberal understandings of poverty at present, or merely an uneasy compromise, while each "side" looks for a way to regain a dominant position.

From the Third World to the Global South

E-International Relations, 2020

The term ‘Global South’ is not an uncontroversial one. There have been many debates in the last few decades regarding its usefulness, both analytical and historical, but especially its connection to another equally debated term, ‘Third World.’ In the midst of these debates, however, there has appeared a loose consensus around their meaning and their linkages. I will attempt to elucidate here the meaning and histories of both terms, and the connections and ruptures between them. To do so, I will be drawing on the work of several Marxist intellectuals, such as L.S. Stavrianos and Vijay Prashad, among others. It must be emphasized, however, that the term Global South cannot be considered separately from that of the Third World. Although different in terms of their historical timeframe and content, I argue that the idea of Global South could not have emerged without taking seriously the conceptual work done by the term Third World, and indeed without the legacy left by Third Worldism and its historical landmarks. The discussion below devotes significant space to understanding not only the emergence of the term Third World, but especially the central role played by processes of capitalist expansion to conceptualizing both Third World and Global South, albeit in different ways and at different historical junctures.