Moving Out of Poverty The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India
by UK, Palgrave Macmillan; Narayan, DeepaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-06-08
Publisher(s): World Bank Publications
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Summary
This title brings together the voices of poor men and women from 300 villages across Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, as it seeks to understand how these people have managed to escape poverty, while others remain stuck, and still others fall into poverty.
Author Biography
DEEPA NARAYAN is project director of a 15-country World Bank study, Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy, and Growth from the Bottom Up. It builds on an earlier study also directed by Narayan, Voices of the Poor.
Formerly a senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction group of the World Bank, Narayan has over 25 years of development experience in Asia and Africa, working for nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and the United Nations system as well as the World Bank Group. Her areas of expertise include participatory development, community-driven development, and social capital, and the use of these concepts to create wealth for the poor. Recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (World Bank, 2007); Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work, co-edited with Elena Glinskaya (World Bank, 2007); and Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (World Bank, 2005).
Formerly a senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction group of the World Bank, Narayan has over 25 years of development experience in Asia and Africa, working for nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and the United Nations system as well as the World Bank Group. Her areas of expertise include participatory development, community-driven development, and social capital, and the use of these concepts to create wealth for the poor. Recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (World Bank, 2007); Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work, co-edited with Elena Glinskaya (World Bank, 2007); and Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (World Bank, 2005).
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Contributors | p. xxi |
| Abbreviations | p. xxv |
| Glossary | p. xxvii |
| Map of India | p. xxviii |
| Moving Out of Poverty in India: An Overview | p. 2 |
| Assets Gained and Lost: Understanding Mobility through Life Stories | p. 64 |
| Communities Where Poor People Prosper | p. 112 |
| Caste Dynamics and Mobility in Uttar Pradesh | p. 166 |
| People's Organizations and Poverty Escapes in Rural Andhra Pradesh | p. 234 |
| Politics of the Middle Path: Agrarian Reform and Poverty Dynamics in West Bengal | p. 286 |
| Who Benefits from Conflict? Some Evidence from Assam | p. 348 |
| Technical Note on Household Regressions | p. 417 |
| Data Collection Methods | p. 437 |
| List of Variables for Household Regressions | p. 443 |
| Weights for the PCA-Constructed Indexes, by State | p. 449 |
| Index | p. 453 |
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