Porter, G. (2003) 'NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world : perspectives from Ghana.', Progress in development studies., 3 (2). pp. 131-145.
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
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Confidence, Ghana, Globalization, NGOs, Partnership. |
| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (237Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/1464993403ps057ra |
| Publisher statement: | 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. |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 02 January 2015 |
| Date of first online publication: | April 2003 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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