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The government of chronic poverty: from exclusion to citizenship?

The Government of Chronic Poverty: from the politics of exclusion to the politics of citizenship? working paper series

Samuel Hickey
2010

Abstract

Development trustees have increasingly sought to challenge chronic poverty by promoting citizenship amongst poor people, a move that frames citizenship formation as central to overcoming the exclusions and inequalities associated with uneven development. For sceptics, this move within inclusive liberalism is inevitably depoliticising and disempowering, and our cases suggest that citizenship-based strategies rarely alter the underlying basis of poverty. However, our evidence also offers some support to those optimists who suggest that progressive moves towards poverty reduction and citizenship formation have become more rather than less likely at the current juncture. The promotion of citizenship emerges here as a significant but incomplete effort to challenge poverty that persists over time. 

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CPRC Working Paper

Keywords

social exclusion citizenship governance Government of chronic poverty series

ISBN: 978-1-906433-53-6

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