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...

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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
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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.
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title Why the Fight against Poverty Is Failing: A Contrarian View
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