1. Prof Duncan Green Delhi October 2012
From Poverty to Power: what kind of redistribution leads to lasting progress?
Prof Duncan Green
Delhi
October 2012

2. Inequality/Poverty of what?
Opportunities v Outcomes
Multidimensionality – inequality of shame and fear
Well-being (collective and individual)
But underlying all of these is

3. Power
Photo: Renato Guimaraes/Oxfam 3

4. But Power is much more than presidents on balconies
Power as force field
Different frameworks for exploring power
Visibility: Visible, Invisible, Hidden
Spaces: Intra elite; created; invited
Four powers

5. The four powers
Power Within
Power With
Power To
Power Over

6. Starting with Gender
3.2m people signed up in South Asia since 2004

7. We Can End Violence Against Women
“To me change is the killing of fear. Someone or something needs to kindle the fire in you and kill the fear that stops you from changing. I have killed the fear of talking and that is a change for me.”
Selvaranjani Mukkaiah, Change Maker, Badulla, Sri Lanka

8. So what is needed to redistribute power?

9. Active Citizens

10. States Effective Photo (right): Ryan Kenward
Botswana: The world’s fastest growing economy from , breaking all the rules – arid, landlocked, small, nat resource dependent, regional conflict and African.
Independence: 13km of paved road, handful of graduates, $300 per cap
40 years on: $6,000 per cap
How? Effective state and luck
Why Effective States?
Lessons of history – East Asia and others (aka developmental states)
Definition: Effective, accountable states
Have powerful and insulated technocracies that establish stable and enforce inclusive ‘rules of the game’ on politics, taxation, law and the working of markets
Have determined, skilled and nationalist business elites
Protect the vulnerable (eg social protection)
Mediate and resolve conflicts
Effective
States 10

11. But Power is Complex!