Moving out of poverty. Volume 2, Success from the bottom up / Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett and Soumya Kapoor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Narayan-Parker, Deepa.

Pritchett, Lant.

Kapoor, Soumya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Developing countries.

Poverty.

Social mobility--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Social mobility.

Migrant labor--Developing countries--Economic conditions.

Migrant labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2009.

Summary:

""No matter if I fall, I get up again. If I fall five thousand times, I will stand up some other five times."" William, a 37 years old from El Gorrion, Columbia, recounts his life story.Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up presents the perspectives of poor people who have made it out of poverty. Based on discussions with over 60,000 people across 17 different study regions, it provides a bottom up viewpoint on the processes and local institutions that play key roles

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Study Team and Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; 1 The Moving Out of Poverty Study: An Overview; Tables; Figures; 2 Stories of the Poor, Stories by the Poor; Boxes; 3 Poverty Is a Condition, Not a Characteristic; 4 I Believe I Can; 5 The Dream of Equal Opportunity; 6 All Politics Is Local: How Better Governance Helps the Poor; 7 The Unfulfilled Potential of Collective Action; 8 Concluding Reflections; Appendix 1 Researchers and Institutions Involved in Country Studies; Appendix 2 Technical Note on Household Regressions; Appendix 3 Data Collection Methods

Appendix 4 List of Variables for Household RegressionsAppendix 5 Weights for the PCA-Constructed Indexes, by Study Region; Appendix 6 Regression Results Tables for MOP and MPI; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8213-7216-5

OCLC:

549601461

Publisher Number:

10.1596/978-0-8213-7215-9