Power, rights and poverty : concepts and connections / edited by Ruth Alsop.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Alsop, Ruth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Poverty--Developing countries.

Poverty.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

viii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank, 2005.

Summary:

While the terms "power" and "rights" are increasingly incorporated into the language of development agencies they have yet to fully permeate the practice of poverty reduction. Acknowledging that this partly results from a lack of clarity over the concepts of power and rights and partly from questions of how to operationalize these ideas, the World Bank and the United Kingdom Department for International Development co-sponsored a collection of essays by leading thinkers and practitioners to enhance our understanding of the relationships among power, rights, and poverty reduction. This volume offers both development professionals and students of development studies succinct summaries of the relationship between theory and practice.

The first chapters of this book address competing definitions and concepts of power and rights, drawing upon observations and applications of these concepts in different countries. Other chapters focus on topics aimed at helping development practitioners apply these concepts to their work. Part II contains supplemental materials, including a summary of the major theoretical conceptualizations of power and an overview of the literature on power and rights.

Contents:

Power, rights, and poverty reduction / Ruth Alsop and Andrew Norton

Linking power and poverty reduction / Rosalind Eyben

Rights, power and poverty reduction / Caroline Moser

Power relations and poverty reduction / David Mosse

Empowerment and institutional change : mapping "virtuous circles" of state-society interaction / Jonathan Fox

Measuring empowerment : country indicators / Jeremy Holland and Simon Brook

Empowerment at the local level : issues, responses, assessments / Michael Woodcock

Measuring empowerment : an anlytic framework / Ruth Alsop, Nina Heinsohn, and Abigail Somma

Working meeting on power, rights, and poverty reduction : a summary / Nina Heinsohn

Understanding the concept of power / Fruzsina Csaszar

Literature review / Fruzsina Csaszar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0821363107

OCLC:

60787049