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Ilcan, Suzan.

Governing the poor : exercises of poverty reduction, practices of global aid / Suzan Ilcan and Anita Lacey. - Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011. - 321 p. : ill.

Towards a genealogy of poverty reduction : from relief to the new global-aid regime? -- Making the poor responsible -- Empowering the poor: Oxfam's poverty-reduction initiatives -- Global aid in post-apartheid Namibia -- Mobilizing Katutura : "a place where we will never settle" -- Partnering the poor : USAID's poverty-reduction partnerships -- Spaces of exclusion : securing Soloman Islands. HKBU library

YT2025 M09

ISBN: 9780773537972 9780773538054

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Poor--Developing countries.
Poverty--Developing countries.
Neoliberalism.
International agencies--Developing countries.
Non-governmental organizations--Developing countries.
Poverty--Government policy.
Pauvres--Pays en voie de développement.
Pauvreté--Pays en voie de développement.
Néo-libéralisme.
Organisations internationales--Pays en voie de développement.
Organisations non gouvernementales--Pays en voie de développement.
Pauvreté--Politique gouvernementale.

LC Class. No.: HC60 / I27 G 2011