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

Gina Porter
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Gina Porter: Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, UK, r.e.porter@durham.ac.uk

Progress in Development Studies, 2003, vol. 3, issue 2, 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.

Keywords: confidence; Ghana; globalization; NGOs; partnership; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1191/1464993403ps057ra

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