Why the Fight against Poverty Is Failing: A Contrarian View
Abraham George is the founder of The George Foundation, an NGO engaged in humanitarian work in India, and the author of India Untouched: The Forgotten Face of Rural Poverty. In this contrarian essay, he explores why the current strategies that governments and development agencies are employing to re...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | text |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2006
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/23 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=ksmu |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Institution: | Singapore Management University |
| Language: | English |
| id |
sg-smu-ink.ksmu-1022 |
|---|---|
| record_format |
dspace |
| spelling |
sg-smu-ink.ksmu-10222018-07-04T08:31:12Z Why the Fight against Poverty Is Failing: A Contrarian View Knowledge@SMU Abraham George is the founder of The George Foundation, an NGO engaged in humanitarian work in India, and the author of India Untouched: The Forgotten Face of Rural Poverty. In this contrarian essay, he explores why the current strategies that governments and development agencies are employing to reduce poverty are not working the way they should. Among his arguments: Microcredit programs, as they are now practiced in India, do little to help the poor. 2006-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/23 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=ksmu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Knowledge@SMU eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Business |
| institution |
Singapore Management University |
| building |
SMU Libraries |
| country |
Singapore |
| collection |
InK@SMU |
| language |
English |
| topic |
Business |
| spellingShingle |
Business Knowledge@SMU Why the Fight against Poverty Is Failing: A Contrarian View |
| description |
Abraham George is the founder of The George Foundation, an NGO engaged in humanitarian work in India, and the author of India Untouched: The Forgotten Face of Rural Poverty. In this contrarian essay, he explores why the current strategies that governments and development agencies are employing to reduce poverty are not working the way they should. Among his arguments: Microcredit programs, as they are now practiced in India, do little to help the poor. |
| format |
text |
| author |
Knowledge@SMU |
| author_facet |
Knowledge@SMU |
| author_sort |
Knowledge@SMU |
| title |
Why the Fight against Poverty Is Failing: A Contrarian View |
| title_short |
Why the Fight against Poverty Is Failing: A Contrarian View |
| title_full |
Why the Fight against Poverty Is Failing: A Contrarian View |
| title_fullStr |
Why the Fight against Poverty Is Failing: A Contrarian View |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Why the Fight against Poverty Is Failing: A Contrarian View |
| title_sort |
why the fight against poverty is failing: a contrarian view |
| publisher |
Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University |
| publishDate |
2006 |
| url |
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/23 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=ksmu |
| _version_ |
1681132785405788160 |