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Next Practices: Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Public Goods at the Bottom of the Pyramid
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How to move beyond the failures of development? In the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) approach, the state, development, and public goods disappear. Instead, nongovernmental organizations help businesspeople realize poor people’s capacity to create infrastructure and business models. I draw on the history of development to show how the BOP is an unintended outgrowth of the critique of development. Drawing on previous formulations of the BOP, I propose that the infrastructures created by poor people’s social practices can also be understood as a “commons” for which compensation should be paid or as a public good to be regulated by the state.
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“Yet as an emergent literature in anthropology suggests (Elyachar, 2012;Schwittay 2011;Dolan and Johnstone-Louis, 2011;Cross and Street, 2009), the rapid diffusion of BoP capitalism raises critical questions of whether, how and with what effects market-led development is assimilating informal economies into the ambit of global markets.”
From Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2016) · cites this paper as Elyachar, 2012
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“The focus on making informal economies legible to capital is not just about learning to understand and engage with their innovative capacities; it is also about restructuring and governing them in line with the needs of global markets (Elyachar 2012;Dolan and Roll 2013).”
From Cannibalizing the Informal Economy: Frugal Innovation and Economic Inclusion in Africa (2018) · cites this paper as Elyachar 2012
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“In the process, the social capital of the poor is hijacked by corporate capital in the service of formal sector profits, constituting a new form of 'accumulation by dispossession' (Elyachar 2012;Cross and Street 2009).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Elyachar, J.
- Venue
- Public Culture
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 109-129
- ISSN
- 0899-2363 (ISSN-L)
- 1527-8018
- OpenAlex
- W2325770118
- Cited by
- 280
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 26.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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