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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812512003321

Titolo

Knowing poverty : critical reflections on participatory research and policy / / edited by Karen Brock and Rosemary McGee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, VA, : Earthscan Publications, 2002

London ; ; Sterling, VA : , : Earthscan Publications, , 2002

ISBN

1-84977-180-4

1-136-56246-X

1-280-47574-9

9786610475742

1-136-56245-1

600-00-0253-X

1-4175-2218-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrockKaren

McGeeRosemary

Disciplina

362.5/07/23

Soggetti

Economic assistance, Domestic

Poverty

Participant observation

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

The self in participatory poverty research / Rosemary McGee -- Participatory analyses of poverty dynamics : reflections on the Myanmar PPA / Paul Shaffer -- Learning from Uganda's efforts to learn from the poor : reflections and lessons from the Uganda Participatory Poverty Assessment Project / Jenny Yates & Leonard Okello -- Who is listening? : the impact of participatory poverty research on policy / Adan ... [et al.] -- Power, knowledge and policy influence : reflections on an experience / Robert Chambers -- Retelling worlds of poverty : reflections on transforming participatory research for a global narrative / Anne Rademacher and Raj Patel.

Sommario/riassunto

The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became



increasingly common in the 1990's. This book focuses on the use of participatory research in poverty reduction policies, and presents a series of participants' reflections on recent and ongoing processes. The 1990's witnessed a shift in the application of participatory methodologies, adding to the project planning approaches of the 1980's a new focus on participatory research for policy. Much of this centres on poverty issues. In this volume, contributions from