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Scenario

How Development Discourse Dehumanizes Its Supposed Beneficiaries

The microfinance conference I attended was full of people talking about 'the poor' as if we're not sitting right there in the room with our name tags and credentials.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional language creates otherness even when the speakers include people with lived experience of poverty.

Your guide for this
Zera
Zera works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Microfinance — small loans and global poverty?”

Peri

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