Moving out of poverty. Volume 4, Rising from the ashes of conflict / Deepa Narayan and Patti Petesch, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

World Bank Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Narayan-Parker, Deepa.

Petesch, Patti L.

Pritchett, Lant.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migrant labor--Developing countries--Economic conditions.

Migrant labor.

Poverty--Developing countries.

Poverty.

Social mobility--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Social mobility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (580 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : World Bank ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Moving Out of Poverty: Rising from the Ashes of Conflict, is the fourth volume from the Moving Out of Poverty series launched in 2007 is under the editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director of the pathbreaking Voices of the Poor series. It features the results of new comparative research across more than 500 communities in 15 countries to understand how and why people move out of poverty, and presents other work which builds on interdisciplinary and contextually grounded understandings of growth and poverty reduction.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Study Team and Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part 1: Building States from the Bottom Up in Conflict-Affected Countries; Tables; Figures; Boxes; Part 2: Country Case Studies; Maps; Part 3: Technical Appendixes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612461262

9781282461260

1282461265

9780821381120

0821381121

OCLC:

606742160

Publisher Number:

10.1596/978-0-8213-7631-7