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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454660903321
• Autore: Narayan Deepa
• 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; Electronic books.
• 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

Countries at the crossroads

• Record Nr.: UNISA996216696503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Freedom House
• Soggetti: Democracy - Developing countries; Representative government and representation - Developing countries; Democratie; Casestudies; Ontwikkelingslanden
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Sommario/riassunto: Countries at the Crossroads is a survey of democratic governance that evaluates performance in 60 key countries that are at a crossroads in determining their political future. The Countries at the Crossroads survey offers scholars, analysts, and officials a comparative tool for assessing government performance in the areas of civil liberties, rule of law, anticorruption and transparency, and accountability and public voice. Countries at the Crossroads features reports on Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China, Colombia, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, ; Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, with one set of 30 countries analyzed in odd years and the other 30 in even years.