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From the global politics of poverty alleviation to the global politics of welfare state rebuilding
Bob Deacon
2010
Abstract
The essential argument of this presentation is that for the past 30 years the dominant discourse in internal development has been the “global politics of poverty alleviation” which focuses on the poor and seeks policies focused upon them to lift them out of poverty, protect them from it or compensate them for it. The presentation argues that this needs to give way to the “global politics of welfare state (re)building” focussed on the alliances that need to be constructed between the poor and non-poor (especially the middle class) to rebuild bonds of solidarity nationally and internationally. The presentation attempts to address the problems and possible limitations of this strategy given the breaking of national social bonds that neo-liberal globalisation and the architecture of aid has facilitated and the associated extent to which the middle class have become globalised in terms of identity and aspiration.
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Conference Paper
Ten Years of War Against Poverty Conference Papers
Conference: Ten Years of War Against Poverty