What do buzzwords do for development policy? a critical look at ‘participation’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘poverty reduction’
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...The moral unassailability of the development enterprise is secured by copious references to that nebulous, but emotive, category ‘the poor and marginalised’ (Cornwall and Brock 2005)....
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...…must be carefully defined and theorized, as they can be easily co-opted into a benign methodology that legitimizes a neoliberalist agenda to train the disenfranchised and the disempowered in the logics of free markets (Cornwall & Brock, 2005; Crewe & Harrison, 1999; Rahnema, 1992; Sharma, 2008)....
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...Linked to Voices of the Poor were the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), an initiative also led by the World Bank, that sought to articulate poverty reduction with participation, ‘with empowerment as an implicit adjunct’ (Cornwall and Brock 2005 : 1045)....
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