Governing the poor
Subtitle: exercises of poverty reduction, practices of global aid
By: Suzan Ilcan and Anita Lacey
Contributors: Lacey, Anita, 1974-
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780773537972; 9780773538054
Subjects: Poor; Government policy; Non-governmental organizations; Organisations non gouvernementales; Pauvres; Organisations internationales; Poverty; International agencies; Politique gouvernementale; Pauvreté; Néo-libéralisme; Neoliberalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: Towards a genealogy of poverty reduction : from relief to the new global-aid regime?; title: Making the poor responsible; title: Empowering the poor: Oxfam's poverty-reduction initiatives; title: Global aid in post-apartheid Namibia; title: Mobilizing Katutura : "a place where we will never settle"; title: Partnering the poor : USAID's poverty-reduction partnerships; title: Spaces of exclusion : securing Soloman Islands.