Lets in a cold climate : Green Dollars, self-help and neoliberal welfare in New Zealand
By: NORTH, Peter
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ArticlePublisher: 2002Subject(s): Welfare Reform | Green Dollars | Neo-liberalism | New ZealandPolicy & Politics 30, 4, p. 483-499Abstract: Complementary currencies have emerged as social policy tools in a number of countries in the last 15 years. This article examines the performance of Green Dollar Exchanges in New Zealand/Aotearoa in a neoliberal environment where fiscal `imperatives' led to state provision of welfare being curtailed in favour of delibery by organisations within civil society through self-help. It argues that, while self-help does have a place within overall welfare provision, voluntary mechanisms failed to fill the gap left by state withdrawal. Consequently, an over-optimistic perpective of the contribution of mutual aid organisations in meeting welfare needs as an alternative to, rather than complementary to, state provision is problematic
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Complementary currencies have emerged as social policy tools in a number of countries in the last 15 years. This article examines the performance of Green Dollar Exchanges in New Zealand/Aotearoa in a neoliberal environment where fiscal `imperatives' led to state provision of welfare being curtailed in favour of delibery by organisations within civil society through self-help. It argues that, while self-help does have a place within overall welfare provision, voluntary mechanisms failed to fill the gap left by state withdrawal. Consequently, an over-optimistic perpective of the contribution of mutual aid organisations in meeting welfare needs as an alternative to, rather than complementary to, state provision is problematic
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