Title
Reducing vulnerability rather than eradicating poverty. The free market model failure lesson within the developing countries town
Other title
[Réquire les vulnérabilité plutôt que la pauvreté. Le modèle de développement néo- libéral à l'épreuve de la ville des pays dusud]
Date Issued
01 January 2009
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Couret D.
Représentation de l'IRD au Pérou
Abstract
Poverty definition has been evolving with developing policies. First to be poor was principally meaning to be out of an easy access to essential resources. After the notion has been enlarged to integrate the fact to be deprive of good conditions for personal fulfilment. Today the state of poverty is assimilated to a state of exclusion, to be "out of development", with a strong link with the "poverty trap" concept. But this conception is contradicted by observation's conclusion about urban organisation of numerous developing countries cities. In these cases, poverty is absolutely not a dropout state but appears has an integrated urban resource. Poverty is a necessary and vital economic element in free-market mechanism of actual urban growth. Using free-market economic growth for eradicating poverty seems an impossible urban target within these developing countries cities. Other developing issue appears during the demonstration. If no regulating policy applied to free-market urban system, it inexorably turns out urban environmental degradations, a drop down of surroundings, quality of life and social living. If poor are the more vulnerable to environmental drop down, the entire urban underworld people are concerned. The economic urban development using free-market mechanism is weakening urban life and environment not only for the poorest surroundings but for the entire urban agglomeration. As eradicating poverty is impossible, perhaps useful urban regulation policies innovations can came out using reducing vulnerability mechanism.
Start page
263
End page
277
Issue
2
Language
French
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía
Sociología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-77951109888
Source
Espace-Populations-Societes
ISSN of the container
07557809
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus