Bridging Different Perspectives on Labour and Poverty : An Evaluation

The purpose of the Exposure Dialogue Program (EDP) is to act as a bridge between WIEGO, SEWA and mainstream economics (sometimes called neo-classical economics) as represented by a team from Cornell University and elsewhere.70 The EDP originated in an earlier discussion on what was perceived to be an intellectual disconnect — with strong implications for practice and policy — between mainstream economists and non-economists. A widely read paper by a Cornell team member, Ravi Kanbur, on the alternative frameworks adopted by what he called the “Finance Ministry” versus the “Civil Society” tendencies was also highly influential in inspiring the EDP (Kanbur 2001)