Why Canadian Poverty is Invisible to Development Agencies Analytical Essay by Top Papers

The paper discusses how Cochrane (2008) introduces the festival elephant and worker elephants as analogues for different kinds of poverty and, by extension, different kinds of solutions to poverty. Inspired by Cochrane, this paper adopts a similar approach in assessing both the nature of Canadian poverty and responses to it, which this writer places into developmental and anthropological categories. The paper concludes by upholding Cochrane's view that poverty has multiple, contextually-dependent solutions, all of which hinge on properly addressing the worker elephant; in Canada's case, the application of this solution lies in the portfolio system of social services, which the writer classifies as an anthropological solution to poverty.