Development Seminar

The Political Empowerment of the Poor in Bangladesh: Donors, NGOs and 'the Road Not Taken' 
Friday, 5 October 2012 | 11:30 am to 1:30pm | 305 Founders College | York University 

Naila Kabeer, Professor of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies 

Recent research in Bangladesh highlights an interesting paradox: impressive development outcomes combined with extremely poor quality of governance. The country's active development NGO sector has been credited with some of the more positive development achievements. This presentation sets out to explore why the sector has not made an equivalent contribution on the governance front. It draws on field work in Bangladesh to explore the hypothesis that the problem lies in the increasing homogenization of the NGO sector around the delivery of services, primarily microfinance services, and its shift away from the political empowerment of the poor.

Hosted and organized by: 

York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) 
Department of Social Science 
Graduate Program in Feminist, Gender and Women's Studies 
International Development Studies 

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