European Union (EU) development policy—poverty eradication and sustainable development in developing countries—poses a challenge in itself to any external intervention. Adding a reduction of inequality to this equation as another emerging development policy
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Inequality and poverty
The ill-fitting pieces in the EU’s development partnerships
Riina Pilke and Marikki Stocchetti
In Regions and Cohesion
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
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- Research Article
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- 1–22 (22 total)
John R. Campbell
This article explores the relation between theory and method in three methodologically innovative studies of rural poverty. The issue is pertinent because the nature of research on poverty has shifted from small-scale qualitative studies to large surveys, and to national-scale studies that combine qualitative and quantitative methods in an effort to inform policy makers on appropriate poverty reduction strategies. The interest in combined methods holds considerable promise for poverty research because it links a search for 'objective' economic concerns to the analysis of 'subjective' and context-specific issues. It is instructive to examine recent studies of poverty that have pursued different theoretical and methodological choices with a view to understand how 'theory' influenced methodological choices, and whether and how such choices influenced their understanding of poverty.
Glenn Banks
The size and dramatic impact of the large-scale mines of Melanesia make a useful case study of the effects of economic globalization on local communities, particularly in terms of poverty and inequality. In the context of debates concerning globalization and poverty, this article examines the processes around large-scale mining at both the national and local scales. It argues that the issue of scale is critical to discussions of the links between poverty and globalization, with no evidence that large-scale mining has reduced poverty at the national level in Papua New Guinea over the last thirty years. Evidence is given from the Porgera mine of the effects of mining development at the local scale, with absolute poverty down but inequality increasing. Ethnographic detail helps to situate these processes in the dynamics of the local society. It is these locally grounded attributes that account for the production of inequality far better than generalized accounts of the 'culture of globalization'.
Barbara Demeyer and Fintan Farrell
This article contains the ‘European Anti-Poverty Network’ contribution to the European research- and Network-project on Indicators of Social Quality (ENIQ). It contains the following parts: after this introduction the European social inclusion strategy, one of the important policy frames for EAPN, will be discussed, followed by the translation of the European decisions on indicators (Laken 2002) by national governments up till now (National Action Plans 1+2) and the consequences for the praxis. The fourth section elaborates on the comments by the EAPN on these European based decisions and the nature of the following reflections within its own membership. The fifth section includes a presentation of research on qualitative indicators for poverty. The last section gives comments and conclusions by EAPN on the social quality approach.
In European Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2005
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 262–274 (13 total)
Extreme Poverty and Existential Obligations
Beyond Morality in the Anthropology of Africa?
Harri Englund
The suggestion that the anthropological study of morality is theoretically undeveloped carries with it the risk of caricaturing ideas of moral obligation in mid-twentieth-century social anthropology. The need for recovering aspects of these ideas is demonstrated by the tendency of moral philosophers to reduce the issue of world poverty to a question of ethical choices and dilemmas. Examining the diplomatic tie that had existed for almost 42 years between Malawi and Taiwan and an ill-fated project of Taiwanese aid in rural Malawi, this article maintains that honoring obligations indicates neither a communitarian ethos nor rule-bound behavior. As the mid-twentieth-century anthropology of Africa theorized ethnographically, the moral and existential import of obligation lies in its contingent materiality rather than in social control. Such insights, the article concludes, can enrich debates on world poverty with alternative intellectual resources.
Poverty and Shame
Interactional Impacts on Claimants of Chinese Dibao
Jian Chen and Lichao Yang
have triggered issues related to the unfairness of the dibao system ( Hu and Wang 2016 ). Receiving dibao is often considered a sign of poverty. The process of implementing dibao may cause or increase shame and stigma among dibao recipients in
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 18–34 (17 total)
Mireia Comas-Via
Translator : Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel
mà menor (literally, the minor hand), 8 and were therefore close to poverty. The outline drawn by these types of sources allows us to claim that widows were a group prone to poverty, especially those who were already in the final stages of their
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 93–103 (11 total)
Facing bureaucratic uncertainty in the Bolsa Família Program
Clientelism beyond reciprocity and economic rationality
Flávio Eiró and Martijn Koster
We do so by empirically focusing on the local implementation of the anti-poverty Bolsa Família Program (BFP), the world's largest conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in terms of the number of people assisted. In its local bureaucracy, we found
The Poverty and Richness of the Imaginary
Sartre on (Anti-)racist Ways of Seeing
Laura McMahon
“essential poverty” of the image through examples of racist images and passions, drawing also on Notebooks for an Ethics (1983), Anti-Semite and Jew (1946), and Richard Wright's autobiographical novel Black Boy (1937). Part Two makes use of Sartre
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 87–100 (14 total)
Money and the Morality of Commensuration
Currencies of Poverty in Post-Soviet Cuba
Martin Holbraad
’s pervasive sense of poverty and moral crisis as they shifted from the moral order of socialist distribution—at its height before 1990 and associated with the Cuban peso, the moneda nacional (national currency)—to new forms of mercantilism associated with