Published September 27, 2012
by iris_author
The Political Empowerment of the Poor in Bangladesh: Donors, NGOs and 'the Road Not Taken'
Friday, 5 October 2012 | 11:30 am to 1:30pm | 305 Founders College | York University
Naila Kabeer, Professor of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies
Recent research in Bangladesh highlights an interesting paradox: impressive development outcomes combined with extremely poor quality of governance. The country's active development NGO sector has been credited with some of the more positive development achievements. This presentation sets out to explore why the sector has not made an equivalent contribution on the governance front. It draws on field work in Bangladesh to explore the hypothesis that the problem lies in the increasing homogenization of the NGO sector around the delivery of services, primarily microfinance services, and its shift away from the political empowerment of the poor.
Hosted and organized by: International Development Studies, York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR), Department of Social Science and the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies
For more information, email ycar@yorku.ca
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