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The Government of Chronic Poverty: From Exclusion to Citizenship?

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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 neoliberalism is inevitably depoliticising and disempowering, and our cases do 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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  • Sam Hickey, 2010. "The Government of Chronic Poverty: From Exclusion to Citizenship?," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(7), pages 1139-1155.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:46:y:2010:i:7:p:1139-1155
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2010.487100
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