A Critical evaluation of local poverty alleviation policies: the case of three provinces in Turkey

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2012

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Önez Çetin, Zuhal

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The world has witnessed a transformation process associated with the drastic changes in social, political and economic spheres under the constraints of neo-liberalism with opening up new challenges for humanity. At that context, as a global problem, poverty has been aggravating at the world-wide and now urban areas are more exposed to risks of poverty. In this regard, reforms of that restructuring process have centered on the requirement of local administrations at poverty struggle. The purpose of this study is to explore local policy initiatives of local administrations at combating urban poverty with also taking into consideration the central government practices. By the help of the GEKA provinces of Denizli, Aydın, and Muğla cases, urban poverty struggle has been examined in detail by a method covering survey application to the impoverished and the in-depth interview method with local and central government officials. At the study, it is seen that in each case study, local administrations have different institutional, political and social service based contingency variables. Local authorities of case provinces cannot produce systematic, standardized, equal and general poverty alleviation policies and services because of the inherent nature of local government tied to uneven development and contingent local variation. Thus, within the limitation of the study, urban poverty struggle have been searched in specific cases, but it is not possible to determine the results of the research to other cases in Turkey. Even though the research covers up few cases at the urban level, the results will be worthwhile and shed light on other future studies.

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Urban policy., Community development, Urban., Local government., Sociology, Urban., Urbanization.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614322/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21528

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Z. Önez Çetin, “A Critical evaluation of local poverty alleviation policies: the case of three provinces in Turkey,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2012.