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1 - The Challenges of Conflict-Sensitive Poverty Alleviation

from Part I - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2020

William Ascher
Affiliation:
Claremont McKenna College, California
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Over the past few years more than ten million relatively prosperous families in India gave up the right to buy fuel at subsidized prices so that poorer Indianscould do so. On the other hand, some wealthy Indians have muscled their way into qualifying for affirmative action privileges, undermining an effective way of improving the prospects for deserving low-income students. In Brazil, the new millennium gave birth to a radical departure from the race-blind “racial democracy” myth to enact benefits for deprived Afro-Brazilians, despite the lack of a powerful pro-affirmative-action movement. Yet the affirmative action program has divided the Afro-Brazilian community, with recriminations and student expulsions for not being “black enough.”

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The Psychology of Poverty Alleviation
Challenges in Developing Countries
, pp. 3 - 23
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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