Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo

by Julia Elyachar

Book Overview

What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a theoretically sophisticated and sobering account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822335719
• ISBN13: 9780822335719
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"