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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456869203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank

Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2010

ISBN

1-282-46126-5

9786612461262

0-8213-8112-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (580 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Narayan-ParkerDeepa

PeteschPatti L

PritchettLant

Disciplina

339.46091724

Soggetti

Migrant labor - Developing countries - Economic conditions

Poverty - Developing countries

Social mobility - Economic aspects - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.