Knowing poverty : critical reflections on participatory research and policy / edited by Karen Brock and Rosemary McGee.

Other author Brock, Karen.
Other author McGee, Rosemary.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2002.
Description1 online resource (xi, 212 pages)
Supplemental ContentEBSCOhost
Subjects
Economic assistance, Domestic.
Poverty.
Participant observation.

Contents The self in participatory poverty research / Rosemary McGee -- Participatory analyses of poverty dynamics : reflections on the Myanmar PPA / Paul Shaffer -- Learning from Uganda's efforts to learn from the poor : reflections and lessons from the Uganda Participatory Poverty Assessment Project / Jenny Yates & Leonard Okello -- Who is listening? : the impact of participatory poverty research on policy / Ahmed Adan [and others] -- Power, knowledge and policy influence : reflections on an experience / Robert Chambers -- Retelling worlds of poverty : reflections on transforming participatory research for a global narrative / Anne Rademacher and Raj Patel.
Abstract The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990s. This book focuses on the use of participatory research in poverty reduction policies and presents a series of participants' reflections on recent and ongoing processes. The 1990s witnessed a shift in the application of participatory methodologies adding to the project planning approaches of the 1980s a new focus on participatory research for policy. Much of this centres on poverty issues. In this volume contributions from re.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Knowing poverty. London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2002 1853838993
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9781849771801 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1849771804 (electronic bk.)
ISBN9781136562464 (electronic bk.)
ISBN113656246X (electronic bk.)

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