Abstract
The world has witnessed a transformation process associated with the drastic changes, with opening up new challenges for humanity. Poverty, as a global problem, occupies the first place among the clusters and challenges of threats within those transformations. At that study, poverty alleviation process in capitalist formations have been analysed with the launch of poverty phenomenon by capitalism. The first objective of the study is the examination of the poverty alleviation initiatives at prior to welfare state period, welfare state golden age period and neo-liberal periods. In this respect, each period’s poverty dynamic, fundamental poverty related formations and institutions have been analysed. The second objective of the study is the detailed examination of the local governments’ poverty alleviation initiatives at prior to welfare state period, welfare state golden age period and neo-liberal periods. In this context, the changing role of the local governments at poverty alleviation is critically analysed. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n5p41
Highlights
The world has witnessed a transformation process associated with the drastic changes in social, political, administrative and economic spheres, with opening up new challenges for humanity
Local government based poverty alleviation discourse is started to be highlighted at the recent global gatherings, conferences and their output reports, with “governance and decentralization” arguments under neo-liberal logic after the 1990s, when poverty alleviation is determined as an objective of development assistance
The similar point for whole nations was the key role of state at the accumulation process and the difference lies at while at the developed countries, state takes the responsibility of the orientation of the capital resulting from overaccumulation, underdeveloped countries faced with limited capital accumulation problem (Harvey, 1985)
Summary
The world has witnessed a transformation process associated with the drastic changes in social, political, administrative and economic spheres (globalization, geographical restructuring, rescaling of state, re/deterritorialization, re/deindustrialization; mainly covering the contradictions and crisis of capitalism and on the struggle of labor and capital), with opening up new challenges for humanity. The first objective of the study is the examination of the poverty alleviation initiatives at prior to welfare state period, welfare state golden age period and neo-liberal periods In this respect, each period’s poverty dynamic, fundamental poverty related formations and institutions have been analysed. The second objective of the study is the detailed examination of the local governments’ poverty alleviation initiatives at prior to welfare state period, welfare state golden age period and neo-liberal periods. In this context, the changing role of the local governments at poverty alleviation is critically analysed. The limitation of the study can be clarified as there is little chance for comparison of different countries’ poverty and poverty alleviation initiatives; the data only facilitate to see the historical transformation of poverty alleviation process and the role of local authorities at poverty alleviation
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