The poverty discourse and the poor in Sri Lanka

Auteur :
YAPA, L.

Description :
Anti-poverty measures in Sri Lanka founded on the international discourse of poverty and development do not serve the interests of poor people. This discourse begins by locating poor people in a distinct poverty sector and proceeds to examine its characteristics. Several attributes of that discourse make it intellectually incapable of seeing how poverty is socially constructed in a diffused nexus of production relations that extends far beyond the so-called poverty sector. An alternative substantive approach to poverty is presented.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Transactions - Institute of British Geographers (1965), issn : 0020-2754, 1998, vol. 23, n°. 1, p. 95-115, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 89 ref.

Date :
1998

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Institute of British Geographers