Paper Title :Disrupting Top-Down Poverty Alleviation: Social Engineering to Design a Better World
Author :Warner Woodworth
Article Citation :Warner Woodworth ,
(2018 ) " Disrupting Top-Down Poverty Alleviation: Social Engineering to Design a Better World " ,
International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) ,
pp. 9-12,
Volume-4,Issue-9
Abstract : This paper calls for societal disruption to mobilize the global poor from the bottom of the Pyramid. The main argument is
that poverty alleviation cannot be left to elites, government or big business. Engineering self-help methodologies are shown
to counter top-down, big, slow bureaucracy through activist students and faculty who become aligned with impoverished
communities. New social inventions may be designed, radical economic development can be applied, and the world’s havenots
may become empowered to lift themselves out of the wretched lives of the Third World by engineering new
community-building technologies from the bottom-up. I will briefly document how universities may partner with village
elders, women, and youth in suffering communities in using grassroots tools to improve the quality of life for the Third
World poor. The particular case at hand is that of the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University, where we
have worked for three decades now to mobilize students, alumni, and faculty in empowering the poor. We have engineered
practical business models and concepts such as finance, planning and decision making, cross cultural management, conflict
and negotiation, change management, leadership, and marketing to design projects. These are emerging, not from the UN or
World Bank, the “Big Boys,” but from below. We will first highlight the socio-economic context in which we work. Then
we will describe several university cases in which the author and his students designed classroom projects to fight poverty,
implemented them in the Third World, and eventually spun them off as non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The paper
concludes with suggestions for future collaboration between universities, rural villages and newly established NGOs.
Type : Research paper
Published : Volume-4,Issue-9
DOIONLINE NO - IJMAS-IRAJ-DOIONLINE-13557
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