From government to grass-roots reform: the Ford Foundation's population programmes in South Asia, 1959–1981

McCarthy, Kathleen

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“…This reflected a long-held interest of Foundation's New York staff for whom an emphasis on civil society action around reproductive issues provided a platform for a new agenda linking feminism and development. This was also reflected in the leadership of foundation-supported NGOs, many of which were run by women (McCarthy, 1995).…”

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“…As a result of which, the Foundation developed a new mode of intervention through which they were able to bypass obstacles thrown up by the changing domestic political situation and reduce programme costs while maintaining their influence in a strategically important country. What resulted was a more arms-length mode of satellite creation in which local administrators rather than American technical experts took the lead (McCarthy, 1995). This move towards a community-based approach to development that paid more attention to place and context was, however, accompanied by a reframing of local communities from obstacles to progress to 'potential reservoirs of entrepreneurship' that could be mobilized for economic development (Rahman & Pokrant 2014, p. 217;see Villadsen, 2007 for a similar argument).…”

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Bridges, platforms and satellites: Theorizing the power of global philanthropy in international development

Kumar

Brooks

2021

Economy and Society

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Bridges, platforms, and satellites: theorizing the power of global philanthropy in international developmentGlobal philanthropy, especially large US philanthropic foundations, has played an active but not unproblematic role in international development. In this article, we theorize the institutional strategies by which global philanthropy exercises disproportionate influence. In particular, we offer bridges, interdigitates, platforms, and satellites as metaphors for theorizing the connections and disconnections that philanthropic foundations engineer. We draw on the interdisciplinary scholarship on philanthropy and development to identify three epochs: scientific development (1940s -1970s), partnerships (1970s -2000s), and philanthrocapitalism (2000spresent). In each of these, we outline how philanthropic foundations have used the above metaphorical institutional mechanisms-separately and increasingly in combination and more sophisticated ways-in making connections and disconnections across developmental geographies, histories, imaginaries, and institutions. Potentially generative, metaphors, we conclude, both offer ways to interpret the disproportionate power of philanthropy as well as challenge it by identifying philanthropy's underlying assumptions, telos, and exclusions of development.

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Bridges, platforms and satellites: Theorizing the power of global philanthropy in international development

Kumar

Brooks

2021

Economy and Society

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“…23 Close cooperation with the governments of 'developing countries' characterized both the Rockefeller and the Ford foundations' work abroad. 24 In the context of decolonization, governments were, as foundation officers recognized rightly, 'the only centres of effective power'. 25 In societies that lacked many of the public structures on which Western societies relied, a strong governmental apparatus was required to implement their development plans.…”

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Towards global equilibrium: American foundations and Indian modernization, 1950s to 1970s

Unger

2011

Journal of Global History

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This article studies the activities of American philanthropic foundations in India between the 1950s and 1970s. It discusses why private institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation felt committed to responding to problems of hunger and population growth abroad and how they managed to establish themselves as leaders in the development aid arena. Instead of considering the foundations as handmaidens of US national strategic interests shaped by the Cold War, the article argues that they should be understood as highly flexible transnational agents who, in an ambitious combination of philanthropic motives, institutional interests, and trust in the power of science, diagnosed political problems and developed methods to overcome them in order to reduce global inequality.

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Philanthropy and the Making of a New Moral Order: A History of Developing Community

Kumar

2022

J Bus Ethics

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Community development, or the socio-economic transformation of local communities, has been a significant focus of organizational ethics. Such community development programmes—whether led by state, civil society, or businesses—are animated by modernization and have involved, I argue, the production of a new moral order. As part of which, communities were imagined in particular ways, historically. Drawing on a periodization of history of philanthropy of the Tata Group (India’s leading multinational conglomerate) from the 1860s onwards, I outline the four stages involved in the production of this new moral order—each with a distinct formulation of community—as part of India’s development. The shifts in imaginaries of community, I conclude, were justified and legitimized by the elites as part of the wider nation-building efforts.

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From government to grass-roots reform: the Ford Foundation's population programmes in South Asia, 1959–1981

Cited by 9 publications

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Bridges, platforms and satellites: Theorizing the power of global philanthropy in international development

Bridges, platforms and satellites: Theorizing the power of global philanthropy in international development

Towards global equilibrium: American foundations and Indian modernization, 1950s to 1970s

Philanthropy and the Making of a New Moral Order: A History of Developing Community

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