Humanitarian NGOs helped shift blame for poverty onto Third World states.

Evidence

The vision of human rights promoted by figures associated with LSF was far from being what Samuel Moyn calls a ‘powerless companion’ of ascendant neoliberalism. Rather, LSF’s leadership drew on the rejection of structuralist economic analyses and redistribution pioneered by rising neoliberal thinkers, and used the language of human rights to shift responsibility for poverty from international economic arrangements onto Third World states. LSF offers a particularly stark example of a more general phenomenon – the uptake of neoliberal ideas by human rights NGOs in the period of their simultaneous rise. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 381

Categorization

• XREF: Directly engages Samuel Moyn’s thesis about human rights and neoliberalism; also connects to the reader’s broader human-rights-and-economics reading. — connects to: Humanitarian discourse relocated Third World poverty’s cause from colonialism to state leaders — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 437; Anti-Third-Worldist NGOs redirected blame for poverty onto postcolonial states themselves — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 391; Humanitarian NGOs like LSF emerged partly to discredit Third Worldist economic critique — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 394 (+6 more)
• QUESTION: Useful to pin down exactly which ‘rising neoliberal thinkers’ LSF drew on for its anti-structuralist positions.

Broader Connections

• Humanitarian discourse relocated Third World poverty’s cause from colonialism to state leaders #corroborates (0.95) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 437
• Anti-Third-Worldist NGOs redirected blame for poverty onto postcolonial states themselves #corroborates (0.95) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 391
• Humanitarian actors reframed underdevelopment as domestic failure to defend liberal markets. #corroborates (0.90) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 423
• Human-rights activism was deployed to shift blame from global economy to states. #corroborates (0.88) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 426
• Humanitarian NGOs like LSF emerged partly to discredit Third Worldist economic critique #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 394
• Humanitarians served as moral shield for the free-enterprise counter-attack on redistributive demands #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 438
• US strategy redefined Third World poverty as self-inflicted, defeating redistributive claims. #corroborates (0.82) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 425
• Neoliberal reform shrank public-sector jobs and redirected educated Dalits into NGOs #complicates (0.72) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 562