The Management of Poverty and the Right of Social Security Murat Özveri In the urbanized and industrialized transformations, social protection is seen as the mission of government and the right of citizen in the national and international documents where secured comfort is the basic principle of the nation. In recent years, developed countries and donors have agreed upon ambitious targets regarding various dimensions of privatisation of social security systems in the developing world. Poverty reduction policies are typically conceived as trying to achieve pro-poor growth that is inclusive of the poor. This article argues that the privatisation of social security systems brings about the danger of “making the rights of social security to be unusable” to the fore. It has been asserted in this article that the main target in the privatisation efforts in the field of social security is rather to put the higher aim of ‘managing poverty’ into practice.