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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778485003321

Autore

Narayan Deepa

Titolo

Moving Out of Poverty, 2 [[electronic resource] ] : Success from the Bottom Up

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : World Bank Publications, 2009

ISBN

0-8213-7216-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (460 p.)

Disciplina

339.46091724

362.57

Soggetti

Developing countries --Economic conditions

Migrant labor --Developing countries

Poverty --Developing countries

Social mobility --Economic aspects --Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

""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