strategy
Promoting solutions to poverty
Synonyms:
Advocating responses to economic marginalization Implementation:
In Bombay, India, an estimated 100,000 people live on the pavements. They wash, sleep and raise their families on the roadside. They are on the lowest rung of the social ladder. Yet some of these pavement dwellers have organized themselves to design and build houses and to claim their rights. Claim:
There is no task more urgent than to mount a persistent and comprehensive attack on the underlying factors of human suffering and deprivation. Broader:
Reducing povertyCreating solutions Narrower:
Living in communityReducing fiscal inequalityProviding the poor with servicesSustaining relief with developmentFacilitating economic structural adjustment Constrains:
Begging Constrained by:
Abandoning the poor Facilitates:
Improving access of rural poor to credit Facilitated by:
Highlighting disadvantagedPromoting social innovationPromoting indigenous developmentEvaluating poverty reduction programmesAddressing problems of cultivation of marginal agricultural land Values:
PovertyUneconomicMarginalization Organizations:
Emmaus International RESULTS Educational Fund Synergos Institute References:
Hardoy, Jorge E and Satterthwaite, David: Squatter Citizen: life in the urban third worldHardoy, Jorge E; Cairncross, Sandy and Satterthwaite, David: The Poor Die Young: housing and health in third world citiesde Silva, Donatus, et al: Against All Odds: breaking the poverty trapFondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le progrès de l'homme: L'initiative economique, outil de lutte contre l'exclusion: sélection de fiches d'expériencesCannat, Noël: L'honneur des pauvres: values et stratégies des populations dominées à l'heur de la mondialisation Subjects:
Society → DisadvantagedCommunication → Promotion
Economics → Economic
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
