caa a22 4500 39757648X CHVBK 20180308164857.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199610 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/cdj/31.4.302 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/cdj/31.4.302 Streefland Pieter H. Royal Tropical Institute Mutual Support Arrangements Among the Poor in South Asia [Elektronische Daten] [Pieter H. Streefland] The paper discusses the significance of mutual support arrangements for the coping, consolidation and emancipation needs of the poor in South Asia. It draws on the results of fieldwork in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Mutual support groups among agricultural labourers and rotating savings and credit associations of urban sweepers are analyzed regarding their potential to affect five aspects of poverty: vulnerability, lack of dignity, little power to bargain or resist, lack of entitlements, weak coping capacity. It is concluded that the rotating savings and credit associations do fit specifically the consolidation and emancipation needs of the moderately poor, whereas the mutual support groups also address the special needs of the very poor and tend to reduce their vulnerability. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence Community Development Journal Oxford University Press 31/4(1996-10), 302-318 0010-3802 31:4<302 1996 31 cdj https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/31.4.302 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/31.4.302 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Streefland Pieter H. Royal Tropical Institute NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Community Development Journal Oxford University Press 31/4(1996-10), 302-318 0010-3802 31:4<302 1996 31 cdj Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford