While Development Goes Down the Drain, Capitalism Profits From “Helping”: A Response to Ilan Kapoor and Gavin Fridell

Lisa Ann Richey

doi:10.1080/02255189.2024.2436147

While Development Goes Down the Drain, Capitalism Profits From “Helping”: A Response to Ilan Kapoor and Gavin Fridell

Lisa Ann Richey^*

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Department of Management, Society and Communication

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Abstract

This article responds to the article by Kapoor and Fridell from this issue, “Reworking Development Today: What Drain Theory and Decoloniality Lack.”

Original language	English
Journal	Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement
Volume	46
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	20-25
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0225-5189
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2024.2436147
Publication status	Published - Mar 2025

Keywords

Critical development studies
Decolonization
Philanthropy
Business
Commodification

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