NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana

Porter, G.

doi:10.1191/1464993403ps057ra

NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana

Porter, G.

Authors

Professor Gina Porter r.e.porter@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the factors that influence and constrain NGO contributions to poverty reduction in a globalizing world, focusing on their role as transmitters of grounded knowledge about poverty in very poor countries. Interviews with staff in 33 NGOs in Ghana, a country where the NGO sector is heavily dependent on overseas funding, indicate that local understandings about poverty are being overridden by so-called programmes of partnership support that erode local confidence in home-grown ideas about poverty and how to combat it. This is illustrated by reference to the common donor preference for working with groups and for ‘Asian’ development approaches

Citation

Porter, G. (2003). NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana. Progress in Development Studies, 3(2), 131-145. https://doi.org/10.1191/1464993403ps057ra

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Apr 1, 2003
Deposit Date	Jan 2, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Jan 2, 2015
Journal	Progress in Development Studies
Print ISSN	1464-9934
Electronic ISSN	1477-027X
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	3
Issue	2
Pages	131-145
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1191/1464993403ps057ra
Keywords	Confidence, Ghana, Globalization, NGOs, Partnership.

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Porter, G. (2003) 'NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world : perspectives from Ghana.', Progress in development studies., 3 (2). pp. 131-145. © Arnold 2003. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.